Hi, The blue Cinci was built in the 50's as a 40 inch X 120 inch hydrotel. In the early 80's Cincinnati began purchasing the castings from the used market. They installed ball screws and the gimbal head to create the 5 axis machine. Circa 1997 we bought the machine from a local Wichita shop. It had the Big Blue Cinci control (IIRC called the Acramatic 800/850). It ran fine with that control. The control was old and was showing signs of age and parts were hard to come by. We put MDSI's OpenCNC control on it. We installed OpenCNC on 3 hydrotels. OpenCNC ran on QNX then. MDSI changed to offer OpenCNC on Venturecom's Windows operating system only. I searched for a control running on something other than Windows and found EMC. During my 'education' installing EMC I discovered EMC2. What a breath of fresh air - made the switch and never looked back. Last I knew the blue cinci was making parts in a shop in Tulsa and one of the 28 inch X 120 hydrotel retrofits with OpenCNC was still making parts in a shop in Kansas City. I left the company in 2013 and lost track of the machines shortly thereafter. I supplied manuals and config details when the machines were sold but haven't heard much lately. regards Stuart
On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 6:07 AM Leonardo Marsaglia <ldmarsag...@gmail.com> wrote: > What a nice machine, I remember there were videos of it on the LCNC site a > while ago. > > I'm curious about the manufacture year of this machine and also if this > came with hydraulic servo actuators and if so are they still being used > with LCNC? > > I remember a guy who retrofitted an internal grinding machine and he used > the original hydraulic cylinder the machine had on the Z axis but installed > a Moog type valve and a linear scale to control it with LCNC. It worked > perfectly. > > El mar., 2 de mayo de 2023 02:43, Thomas J Powderly <tjt...@gmail.com> > escribió: > > > Thanks for the links > > > > and for FFox, it can ask > > > > save > > > > or > > > > open with > > > > (some app to view the .wmv) > > > > So I just open with VLC > > > > likely MPV and Parole can view wmv also > > > > tomp > > > > thx Jogn Jon and Stuart > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-developers mailing list > > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > -- Addressee is the intended audience. If you are not the addressee then my consent is not given for you to read this email furthermore it is my wish you would close this without saving or reading, and cease and desist from saving or opening my private correspondence. Thank you for honoring my wish. _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
