Gildemeister NEF 480 Retrofit

The first order for the retrofit arrived
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Not really enough to really start but I haven't finished cleaning but made some progress a complete bucket of grime and chips is already full

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The rear cable canal still needs to be cleaned from the grime and I avoided the coolant tank.

it looks quite messy ​and will be something I will happily postpone once more. But enough for now the next delivery guy is ringing...

and he brought some CEE cables and connectors

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and the Mesa card arrived.

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still not enough to start but let's see what tomorrow delivery will bring.

today some more stuff arrived

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now I can start thinking about taking care of the wiring

Today the computer arrived:



I also started to remove the old control:



and the first of the old servos left the machine:



I also removes the housing to get better access to the machine for future rewiring:



I also started to pull and lay out the old cables:



Still in the cleaning and preparing phase of this project I am really looking forward the I can assemble again

at the moment the table with the removed parts is starting to be filled:


more next year

So installed linuxcnc today. It's not the final monitor but I wanted to start


latencies look okish without W-Lan and disabled audio

also flipped the cabinet around, now it's right siede up.

After taking a look at the back:

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I decided ti scrap everything but the hart plugs even the main switch will go. So its waiting again and cleaning a lot of cleaning

emptied the cabinet today
work in progress:




and in the end:




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and here is all the stuff I removed:






nest is cleaning and then building it up again.