My acquisition.

[kingcreaky]

Hi all

been in the background for a while.. reading with interest. My new rig has finally arrived. Its taken a while but as previously posted, I got this quite cheap and have had to call in some favours along the way but its now been delivered and unloaded and on returning from my holidays today.. ive seen it for the first time.

For now.. its at a friends farm. Where I can hopefully resurrect it, then if I can... build a bigger workshop!

anyway, il stop yabbering

here are the pics I took earlier today







Rubbing the rails with sandpaper and wd40 brings the rust off. Only did about 1cm at the end of one of X rails (incase you guys suggest I shouldnt)

The spindle looks the same as the 2.2kw one i have on my other machine.. except physically its much bigger

its rack and pinion drive on all three axis

moved it with HIAB (weighs nearly three tons)


First question (probably of many)

obviously getting the machine itself doesnt phase me (with my confidence from my initial build) however the suction bed would be excellant if I could get that working

1.) can anybody shed any light on the big blue thing!. I assume its a suction device that connects to the bed to suck the workpeace down... It obviously looks like three-phase. Ultimately il be needing to run it on single (shall I bin that bit now?) what are the 240v options? if any?