metalshaper
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Wonder if anyone could help??
Was just given a Shopwares Machines inc., SM1500 benchtop CNC "Teaching" lathe. The school it came from had only the machine left ( and it had been sitting on a shelf for nearly 10 yrs! ) No software, no link card, no manuals.. basically no nuttin'! it had been removed from their inventory many years back and they finally decided it had to go.
I was in the right place?? : to have the opportunity to take it home. < not sure if it was lucky or not > I can use the lathe in a manual mode, as all the feed controls work,,, the DRO's function.. the Step motors do their thing.. it just lacks any computer link/cotrol. of course the company is LONG gone!!
Would really like to get the thing running as a CNC.. anybody have an ideas or suggestions?? and to make matters worse, I know nothing about CNC/ step contollers!!
Respect Always
Metalshaper/Jonathan
Was just given a Shopwares Machines inc., SM1500 benchtop CNC "Teaching" lathe. The school it came from had only the machine left ( and it had been sitting on a shelf for nearly 10 yrs! ) No software, no link card, no manuals.. basically no nuttin'! it had been removed from their inventory many years back and they finally decided it had to go.
I was in the right place?? : to have the opportunity to take it home. < not sure if it was lucky or not > I can use the lathe in a manual mode, as all the feed controls work,,, the DRO's function.. the Step motors do their thing.. it just lacks any computer link/cotrol. of course the company is LONG gone!!
Would really like to get the thing running as a CNC.. anybody have an ideas or suggestions?? and to make matters worse, I know nothing about CNC/ step contollers!!
Respect Always
Metalshaper/Jonathan