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- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
At my new job here in Little Rock, AR, we have a VMC that supposedly worked when it left its former home and also supposedly worked until a few months before I showed up. The story is that it stopped functioning at all when the engineers connected a computer to it, before I got here.
You may have read about this exact machine here: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/cnc-machining/seeking-advice-megamill-vmc-2040-a-265436/
Yes, it is the same machine. We ended up with it when the facility in Canada had its bankrupty auction, here:
Mega Mill CNC w/computer and tooling VMC-2 voltage:575
I'm not exactly a journeyman CNC operator - although that's what I went to school for, I've been operating manual machines professionally. I am certainly not an electrician or electrical engineer, and I feel like I might be in over my head if I try to tear this thing apart.
So far, the problems are in startup. There's an air leak that I've traced to the stud puller, and that's easy enough to fix. It trips the main power-in breaker if I open up the air line, so I'm just stuck at this point.
If I leave the air off, I get an error code on the screen in red letters "EMG EMERGENCY". I can only find one e-stop, and it's on the control panel.
Does anyone have a good contact for an expert who can troubleshoot the machine here in Little Rock?
You may have read about this exact machine here: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/cnc-machining/seeking-advice-megamill-vmc-2040-a-265436/
Yes, it is the same machine. We ended up with it when the facility in Canada had its bankrupty auction, here:
Mega Mill CNC w/computer and tooling VMC-2 voltage:575
I'm not exactly a journeyman CNC operator - although that's what I went to school for, I've been operating manual machines professionally. I am certainly not an electrician or electrical engineer, and I feel like I might be in over my head if I try to tear this thing apart.
So far, the problems are in startup. There's an air leak that I've traced to the stud puller, and that's easy enough to fix. It trips the main power-in breaker if I open up the air line, so I'm just stuck at this point.
If I leave the air off, I get an error code on the screen in red letters "EMG EMERGENCY". I can only find one e-stop, and it's on the control panel.
Does anyone have a good contact for an expert who can troubleshoot the machine here in Little Rock?