On 8/12/2011 9:08 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: > A little bit of excitement in my own life is that I am in the process of > buying a warehouse for money making purposes. (expand my surplus buying and > selling) > > The warehouse purchase deal includes several industrial machines, tooling, > shelving, raw materials etc, as found in the warehouse. > > One of the machines is an "Anca Fastgrind" CNC tool and cutter grinder. > Similar to this: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/140588368305 > > According to the seller, it has a "bad motherboard". The seller is an > extremely honest man, according to my 11 year old surplus trading > experience. With such guys, most surprises are good surprises. > > There may be, possibly, not much wrong with it. > > Anyway, I have three questions. > > 1. Is it too obsolete for any people who do T&C grinding to make money? In > other words, if I fix it, do I stand a realistic chance of selling it? > > 2. For someone with general troubleshooting skills and a minimum CNC > knowledge, how hard is this thing to troubleshoot? > > 3. Can I put a new industrial control on this? > > I do not want this to become an endless time drain. For me, it is either fix > quickly, or just sell as is, or part out. This warehouse is a business > venture, and at this stage, I do not want to start another year long > retrofit project, especially for something with such a non-obvious function, > as a tool and cutter grinder. > > My Bridgeport Interact was great fun, and is now very useful, but I had more > time back then. > > I want to hear an opinion of someone experienced. > > Thanks! > > i >
This machine is no longer available, but look at the bottom of the description: http://www.machineks.com/machines/universal-cylindrical-grinders-2/11368-machine.html ANCA FASTGRIND SYSTEM 32 CNC CONTROL CONVERSATIONAL "G_CAM" PART PROGRAMMING - SIMPLE PART PROGRAM WHICH SETS THE PARAMETERS, AND THEN CALLS THE APPROPRIATE CYCLE FOR EACH PARTICULAR SECTION OF THE WORKPICE. THE PARAMETERS, AND THE CYCLES CALLED, ARE ULTIMATELY SPECIFIED BY THE OPERATOR, WITH AN ASSISTANCE FROM THE CONTROL THROUGH "G_CAM". FLOPPY DISC DRIVE & RS-232 INTERFACE EDGE DETECTION SENSING Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
