Denford Triac VMC with ATC Conversion / Fix

[Chaz]

Hi,

So very pleased to start this thread. After my previous thread of 'what decent milling' machine, I found a school owned Triac VMC for sale. After a massive struggle to transport the unit and buying it unseen, it was delivered this morning. The mill was sold with a few extra tools but with a fault that the OS does not boot up. On the basis that I will likely retrofit some / all of the electronics, I considered this in the purchase decision and costing.

Initial thoughts are wow, its massive. Its also fairly heavy, as we had discovered when manually unloading it. The lads had loaded it up the previous day and clearly hadnt learnt about getting an engine hoist or similar to help.

I will upload pics in a bit, but the mill looks fairly clean, little use. I could not lift the front door to see much more as its interlocked and needs power to unlock.

Not a lot of unhappyness, apart from when they left, I tried to close the garage door and could not. Fortunately a bit of an effort and the garage door was closed. There is a bit of damage on the bottom as the machine has been man handled to move it but nothing serious.

The machine has come with more tools than expected and also a semi decent looking vice. I suspect if I add up the tools and few extras, some value already.

What is also included is a lot of the documentation and also very usefully, the wiring diagram.

So, what can I see from the diagram?

Three Phase power (which I dont have), stepped down to 110V and 24V for control.

Servo X Y Z control, not stepper. If the motors are good, this might be very awesome.

The Spindle looks to be DC, running from a 0-10V Analog signal.

The ATC looks to be servo based.

So lots of servos, no steppers. This is a good thing?

So, it might be a CSLabs IP-A controller, try and use the drives, see what I get?

http://www.cs-lab.eu/en/produkt-7,2-...onnectors.html

The coolant pump seems to be the only 3 phase item .... I need to see how I can sort running on an inverter or moving the power to single phase.

Thoughts / comments / discussion welcome. Will post pics in a bit as soon as they are uploaded.