StefanG
Aluminum
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2009
- Location
- Germany, Bavaria
Hello together,
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine offered me to buy an old Deckel G2 Engraver which was lurking around in his garage. He showed me some pictures, whick looked pretty ok to me, only major drawback: The pantograph mechanism got lost (I don't know how you can loose something like that )
But, he called a good price (200euros), so I bought it.
My plan is to build a small cnc vertical milling machine out of the remains of the machine (Better that, before they end up in a chinese furnance, to be remolten...)
Some Pictures:
After picking it up, in the car:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00012.jpg
http://gtwr.de/DSC00013.jpg
Moving it down into the basement, worked like a charm:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00014.jpg
After a quick cleanup, I did some measurments, to check the accuracy:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00016.jpg
So far ok, the end of the ways move away a few 1/100mm, I will correct that later by scraping...
The type plate, painted black and then ground down to reveal the brass
http://gtwr.de/DSC00031.jpg
Can someone determine the age of this machine with the help of the serial number? I asked Franz Singer via mail, but he has no documents relating to the Deckel G2
New Paint, mounted on a stand, fitted a 25x5mm Bosch Rexroth ballscrew for the Z-axis
http://gtwr.de/DSC00049.jpg
What do you think? Is it ok, or a sacrilege against every Deckel Machine ever built?
greetings
Stefan
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine offered me to buy an old Deckel G2 Engraver which was lurking around in his garage. He showed me some pictures, whick looked pretty ok to me, only major drawback: The pantograph mechanism got lost (I don't know how you can loose something like that )
But, he called a good price (200euros), so I bought it.
My plan is to build a small cnc vertical milling machine out of the remains of the machine (Better that, before they end up in a chinese furnance, to be remolten...)
Some Pictures:
After picking it up, in the car:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00012.jpg
http://gtwr.de/DSC00013.jpg
Moving it down into the basement, worked like a charm:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00014.jpg
After a quick cleanup, I did some measurments, to check the accuracy:
http://gtwr.de/DSC00016.jpg
So far ok, the end of the ways move away a few 1/100mm, I will correct that later by scraping...
The type plate, painted black and then ground down to reveal the brass
http://gtwr.de/DSC00031.jpg
Can someone determine the age of this machine with the help of the serial number? I asked Franz Singer via mail, but he has no documents relating to the Deckel G2
New Paint, mounted on a stand, fitted a 25x5mm Bosch Rexroth ballscrew for the Z-axis
http://gtwr.de/DSC00049.jpg
What do you think? Is it ok, or a sacrilege against every Deckel Machine ever built?
greetings
Stefan