SeymourDumore
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2005
- Location
- CT
Guys I have a small problem.
I have a 50" travel ACER mill with an Anilam Crusader II 2-ax control, and it has served me very well over 20 years or so.
Literally from the word go, it was used only as a 2 ax positional machine for boltholes, mill this, mill that kind of stuff.
I have full blown CNC machines to do all milling jobs so this is simply a toolroom machine, but I have grown to be pretty fond of it.
Anyhow, the control appears to be done for. I am still trying some board level troubleshooting, but not going to give it much of a financial effort.
So, my question is: Does any of you know of a retro manufacturer that would be capable of interfacing to a set of Anilam servo motors and
the Anilam .0005 resolution glass scales?
I know Accurite, Siemens, Fagor and a few other makers do provide complete or partial kits to retrofit, but none of them explicitly state that their
stuff can be configured to be a direct upgrade to an existing control.
I AM NOT!!! interested in Mach 2 or similar stuff!
What I AM interested in is if there is a "famous maker" full blown, soup-to-nuts manufacturer which has a soup-only offering.
I have the motors, motor mounts, motor cables, linear scales, scale cables, ballscrews/nuts, end stops and all else mounted, ready to go.
All I'd like to do is yank out the old Anilam stuff from the enclosure, put in the new stuff, hook up the motor and scale cables,
mount the pendant in place of the old one, configure motor and scale parameters and hit GO.
I will try to call Accurite and Siemens ( perhaps Heidenhain ) next week if they have something along those lines, but asking around if ....
Oh, about budget ... I'd like something around $6K-ish, give or take a couple grand.
I have a 50" travel ACER mill with an Anilam Crusader II 2-ax control, and it has served me very well over 20 years or so.
Literally from the word go, it was used only as a 2 ax positional machine for boltholes, mill this, mill that kind of stuff.
I have full blown CNC machines to do all milling jobs so this is simply a toolroom machine, but I have grown to be pretty fond of it.
Anyhow, the control appears to be done for. I am still trying some board level troubleshooting, but not going to give it much of a financial effort.
So, my question is: Does any of you know of a retro manufacturer that would be capable of interfacing to a set of Anilam servo motors and
the Anilam .0005 resolution glass scales?
I know Accurite, Siemens, Fagor and a few other makers do provide complete or partial kits to retrofit, but none of them explicitly state that their
stuff can be configured to be a direct upgrade to an existing control.
I AM NOT!!! interested in Mach 2 or similar stuff!
What I AM interested in is if there is a "famous maker" full blown, soup-to-nuts manufacturer which has a soup-only offering.
I have the motors, motor mounts, motor cables, linear scales, scale cables, ballscrews/nuts, end stops and all else mounted, ready to go.
All I'd like to do is yank out the old Anilam stuff from the enclosure, put in the new stuff, hook up the motor and scale cables,
mount the pendant in place of the old one, configure motor and scale parameters and hit GO.
I will try to call Accurite and Siemens ( perhaps Heidenhain ) next week if they have something along those lines, but asking around if ....
Oh, about budget ... I'd like something around $6K-ish, give or take a couple grand.