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Me too, by two years.That date stamp is older than me.
Oh shit. I know your birthday now. What did you say your moms maiden name was?
He used them for making tank bungs for trains. AL and plastic for 30 years. They are free to me if I want them. I COULD find a home for them if I wanted, but I don't have a good use for them besides being a time/money suck. I just don't want to kick myself for scrapping them if they are worth a bunch or a good machine or something like that.
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I wouldn't go that direction yet. Those appear to be in very good shape and there are plenty of people still running them. Throw them on CL and FB and some FB cnc groups for a few grand apiece and see if you get any bites. See if there's any tooling to go with them and sell that separate or use it as a carrot to sell with the machines.
Yup, she wants em gone. I tossed em up on FBMP. Will give it until the holidays, then probably start scrapping them. I am sure there is some cool parts I will salvage. I know I will get at least a few new pressure regulators.Two years later and now they're free?
Tell me you don't know what EEPROM is without telling me you don't know what EEPROM is.Two years later and now they're free?
Old CNC milling machines, need info please.
I met this widow through a friend, and she is looking to sell some old CNC equipment. One of her friends tried selling it with no luck, and I said I would look into it. Is this worth anything more than scrap price?
No way those are 18-20k lbs. I'd be surprised if they're more than 7-8k.
I wouldn't go that direction yet. Those appear to be in very good shape and there are plenty of people still running them. Throw them on CL and FB and some FB cnc groups for a few grand apiece and see if you get any bites. See if there's any tooling to go with them and sell that separate or use it as a carrot to sell with the machines.
Biggest concern I'd have is that they've been sitting for several years and the EEPROM batteries are likely dead, meaning the parameters will have been lost. I don't know those machines or controls to know if they're stored in hard memory and can be recovered or if they have to be re-entered manually. If it's the later, you need to original parameter sheets that would likely be attached to the manuals. If those are still around, it's much more likely that they could be put back in service without retrofitting.
Ahh...whatever. I was backwards. SOME use EEPROM to store parameters that can be recovered, but it's not guaranteed. Almost all of them have batteries to keep the SRAM alive, which is where the parameters are actually pulled from at startup.Tell me you don't know what EEPROM is without telling me you don't know what EEPROM is.
Pull the tables and make welding tables out of them.
I am getting old, this thread makes me sad
I am getting old, this thread makes me sad
No cause he's going to scrap a machine that would be awesome for a guy that wants to spend the next few years converting one to a modern control....
Given the condition of the machine and shop, I'm betting the manuals and params are sitting on a shelf nearby.
I do to. But I am closing on a house in 12 days, and won't have a shop built for at least a year. I have where to store em, and by the time I get to em, I will be over them. I will trade you 2 mills for 1 gate. Deal?
I have all the manuals here. I am looking them over now. But honestly, this is so over my head it isn't funny.
I am not going to even try to tell you it's easy....
It's going to look like a list of several hundred or even thousands of parameter IDs with numbers next to them. Not sure exactly what they'll look like for those controls, but this is one of the many pages for one of my machines.
