Gildemeister NEF 480 Retrofit

Yea he will have to work for some little longer.
For today and tomorrow more parts will arrive.

And I found a fitting tailstock.

another boring picture:

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the VFD, touch screen and the contactors arrived.
Now only the motor protectors and filter is missing and I am running out of excuses not to start assembling

anfänger wrote: ...... and I am running out of excuses not to start assembling

I have a solution i use for that, i start screaming at myself for being lazy ! In my head, not out loud, that would promptly win me the title of "insane".

So did more cleaning before Monday hopefully the last parts for the cabinet will arrive.
The cabinet is free of dust and chips now:



also the console is cleaned out

Then the were the cable guides still uncleaned while removing most of the old cables I also cleaned them an d the rest of the machine:






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the hardest part was the coolant tank:



after some trouble with my 7i97 (was not voltage to properly start it up) I got it running:


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so next is writing the ini and Hal files and of course rewiring this junk of metal

This week some more parts arrived:



So now just a few parts are missing.

I opens the spindle to check is everything is OK there:



It looks good, but there was a surprise the electric clutch turned out to by hydraulic and drives by the oil pump driven my the main shaft. This can turn in to a problem when using the vfd. But this is something to take care of when it causes troubles.

After this I removed more unused cables. now it's quite empty there:



Just the spindle clamp, coolant and the additional spindle index.

Also removed the unused connectors from the back:



quite a pile of old cables it habs become



Then I salvaged and cleaned the connectors and also cleaned the spindle encoder hoping to get a clue how many increments if has and if it has an index signal. The additional one gives to signal per turn. I think Linuxcnc likes on per rev.



so reassembly comes in sight and less excuses to postpone it again are there