> > 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 >
Hi Stuart, Really nice story, thanks for the details! :) El mar, 2 may 2023 a las 9:03, Stuart Stevenson (<stus...@gmail.com>) escribió: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
