New Toy, er Tool

[brino]

I can't remember just what the thing was, it was surely cobbled together.

Maybe, but you do what you gotta do to get thru the pinch.
-brino

 

[JimDawson]

A little update. I'm still waiting for a trailer, I should be on my way back by now. The trailer I need was supposed to be back to the rental shop last Monday and rental shop can't get ahold of the renter. They have another trailer that is supposed to be back this coming Sunday, so hopefully I'll be out of here Monday morning.

I am surprised that there are only two of those trailers in the entire area. There are a half dozen heavy equipment rental places here and none of the others have a trailer like I want.

 

[Wreck™Wreck]

You will enjoy the machine, lathe parts are easier to program then mill parts, you always know exactly where the center is (-: You mentioned having little lathe experience, with such a stout machine do not be afraid to use large DOC's and feed rates until the chip breaks, if the chips get out of control it will ruin your day or more, feed over ride is your friend.

If the live tooling is not a 4th axis of movement these opps will be as simple as programming a 2 axis mill, as a disclaimer I have never programmed a lathe with a C axis aside from threading but must assume it is merely moves from zero in the rotational axis.
By it's age it may be 2.5 d so you will learn a good deal about Plane Selection.

Good Luck, I look forward to your immersion into Fanuc controls.

 

[JimDawson]

Well lookie what followed me home


A beautiful day in Oklahoma.


And all wrapped up and ready to go to its new home


A few statistics:

Round trip miles: 3416
Total trip hours: 96:00 (I pulled out at 13:30 Monday, pulled into my driveway at 13:30 Friday)
Driving hours: 61:42
Fuel used: 239 gal (about $717, pretty close to my estimate of $700)
I can't figure out why diesel is so much more expensive than gas everywhere but Oregon.
GVW: 21,200 lbs (about 2500 lb overload for my truck) About 10,200 lb of machine.
Could use another 100 HP, 325 HP is just a little light for that load, and much bigger brakes
Overall it cost about the same amount as having it shipped, but this way I had full control over everything and it was handled with love all the way.

I learned that I don't ever want to be a long haul trucker. I have a lot of respect for those guys and gals.

I'll get it unloaded tomorrow or Sunday, I need a nap now

More pictures to follow.............

 

[brino]

Congratulations Jim!

I pulled out at 13:30 Monday, pulled into my driveway at 13:30 Friday

That's a week well invested.

-brino

 

[JimDawson]

Congratulations Jim!


That's a week well invested.

-brino

I hope so. Should be fun to learn how to use it. The first project will be to get it running on single phase. Need to study the system a bit before I decide on the best way to power it up.

 

[Firestopper]

Welcome home Jim, glad everything went well for you. Thats a beast and capable of producing some killer work.
Looking forward to seeing it in action.

 

[countryguy]

CONGRATS JD! What year is on the badge? or did I miss that in the posts?
Hey, I can monitor and see where this goes for sure!!! we've been interested in something along these lines 10K or under. I sort of fell in luv w/ the Doosan Lynx 220 but they seem about 2x that. Looking forward to this one!

 

[Wreck™Wreck]

Looks like a nice enclosure that should keep the coolant where you want it. When that CRT display fails just plug the display output into a generic flat screen monitor and place it on top of the machine, we have 2 Bridgeport lathes with 20" diagonal flat screen color monitors, no tool manufacturer would have dreamed of such a thing in 1998, I am sure that you know this very well.

As far as running it on single phase good luck. if the axes drives are DC this may present less of a challenge but one never knows with Hardinge.

 

[JimDawson]

CONGRATS JD! What year is on the badge? or did I miss that in the posts?
Hey, I can monitor and see where this goes for sure!!! we've been interested in something along these lines 10K or under. I sort of fell in luv w/ the Doosan Lynx 220 but they seem about 2x that. Looking forward to this one!

I'm not sure what year it is, '98 or '99 I think, I'll have to look.

There are quite a number of lathes in this size range available. $8-$12K range, there are also machines that are all over the map on price. What is unusual about this particular one is the live tooling. It was an expensive option. And this one came with the live tool holders. So picking this one up for <$10K made it pretty much a unicorn machine.

If you don't need a live tooling then there are a lot of machines available. Depends on what spindle hole size you need.

Looks like a nice enclosure that should keep the coolant where you want it. When that CRT display fails just plug the display output into a generic flat screen monitor and place it on top of the machine, we have 2 Bridgeport lathes with 20" diagonal flat screen color monitors, no tool manufacturer would have dreamed of such a thing in 1998, I am sure that you know this very well.

As far as running it on single phase good luck. if the axes drives are DC this may present less of a challenge but one never knows with Hardinge.

Thanks for the monitor tip.

The axes and spindle are all Fanuc DC servos. The hydraulic pump and coolant pump are 3 phase. We'll see what makes the most sense.