1982 Matsuura MC-500v Retrofit

Made a little more progress on the mill. Had a few things go on that were giving me tons of grief, but the users on the IRC channel helped walk me through them. Turns out that they were just small things such as bad ground, signal names changes (happened at some point during different versions of lcnc) and basic things like that. I am pretty close to finishing the mill now.

This for some reason has be all sorts of excited.....

Awesome job! Did you end up rolling your own tool changer logic? I would love to see it.

sam

I started with yours to get a good idea on how it all works. Then did my own and surprisingly they are very close to being the same. I have some extra timers in there to allow for longer air blasts if I desire, etc. There is also a few other things such as using the factory tool change limits as a dependency that needs satisfied in order for the atc ladder to even work. So there are a few things different, but not a great deal.

Thanks for letting me see your ladder which gave me a good idea on how classic ladder functions. I am comfortable with CL now enough that I can do many other things in the future.

When I am all finished with the retrofit I will be posting a zip file of my working config for anybody who would like it.

Exiting for sure, and very pleased to see it working after a lot of hard work. Now we need to see some chips flying around !
Regards,
Tom

An inspiring effort and you should most pleased with yourself.
john

I have had a good time with this project. The previous mills I have done were not this involved. Well worth it just on the experience end of things. Getting really close to being complete and hope to be done in the next couple weeks at most. I am really excited to let this mill eat some material.