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Picture of the upgraded control and screen. 17" screen, hand controller, e-stop, and all buttons
needed. Blueray keyboard and mouse.
The screen has capability to have any button added to it,(ie, start, stop, feed hold).
Can be edited for looks, size, ect. There are multiple pics supplied for the buttons, but you can make your own by drawing
them.
The hard buttons on the right are offset, number pad, settnings. These are all
the buttons camsoft put on that should cover anything, although you can add picture buttons on the screen and program them
to do whatever you want.
It also has full graphics to see what the tool is going to do before you run and has a lot
of conversational programing built in, like bolt patterns, pockets, ect.
The guy who did the upgrade lives around Palm Harbor area. His name is Paul Wilson,
Cell number is 727-637-1813 and Home phone is 727-697-0333. I'm going to call him and let him know you may be calling. He
can tell you anything you need to know about the machine and i'm sure he will be happy to finish it up for you. He said it
would take about another week, figure about 30 to 40 hours. He's the cheapest guy I know and has very low rates, since
he doesn't do it anymore except for extra money. He bought a crab business, which is what he always wanted to do.
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Close-up of the screen, I used the default and added a few buttons, won't know really what's
needed till the machine is running on 440 volts.
Here are the manuals for the Heller, which includes full wiring along with all documentaion,
all the camsoft and gallia instruction, programing, building, operators manuals, etc. Also all the cd's and software, We
had purchased an upgrade for it which was over $1,000, but never installed it in the machine yet, because right
after I ordered it, I found out I couldn't get 440 3 phase out here, where I was located without dishing out a ton of
cash. I didn't have enough big work for this machine to justify that cost.
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Side view of the control showing the hand controller. You can see the hard buttons on the
control, emer-stop, hand wheel, cycle start, fed hold.
These are the angle plates that go on the machine. they were put outside, as we needed
the room. they got rusty, need to be blasted and painted, they weigh over 1000 pounds each (guessing), but the
forklift back wheels were bouncing when carrying them.
This is the computer that now does all the movements. It was supplied by Camsoft.
It has a Galia card in it that went for about 6 grand that does most of the controling of the machine, I also had to purchase
and have installed all new encoders, as the machine had resolvers and they said it would bring the accuracy way up using encoders.
something about 400 pulses verses 2000 pulses.
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Close-up of the hand controller. you can set offsets with it, allowing you to be touching
the tool off on the part and not have to be at the control. Includes handwheel and e-stop. It's blurry, but the buttons are
basicly for setting offsets and touching off tools, plus more.
I put a lawn chair next to the plates to give an idea of the size of them As you
can see this machine is big and strong, as it holds both plates and the part.
I was planning on fly cutting them on the machine to clean them. Also making them flat
and even.
The conveyer. High enough for a 55 gallon drum. I don't think it's programably
through the control, but needs to be turned on manually.
This is a pic of the hard control on the right side of the screen. I can't seem to get a
good enough pic to show what the keys say.
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Picture of the whole machine. It has some surface rust from sitting in the back room
and not running (easily cleaned off). the coolant would be going over these surfaces which keeps them clean.
It has a 50 HP spindle drive motor (which is why it needs 440 3 phase), and the servos that control the axises are very huge
for a mill. I can't be sure, but I think the guy (Paul) who did the upgrade said they were 20 hp. thats what I think
he said, but sounds very high to me; maybe they were 10. I know the place I bought the machine (Maas Prassi) used it
to rough out big steel molds and were running 4 inch cutters aout 12 inches long. They said they were roughing out pockets
in 15 minutes that took hours on the other mills. This machine is a work horse and a great time saver for roughing out
big parts. It will do the job in a fraction of the time it would take other macines. I have the guards behind the
machine, but had no reason to put them on right now. Also, coolant pump and tank are included along with an
oil cooler. Everything, as far as I know is there, It just needs to be hooked to 440 which will take about a week to complete. Paul
did all he could do without having the 440. He even rewired the table to 220 to test it; just couldn't turn on
the spindle, because as it would start to run, it would alarm out due to the low power. Paul will do it for
you. He has a good rate. He was a machine repair guy, but now only does it on the side, as he bought crab boats and
filled his dream of fishing for a living. So now the machine repair is a part time job. If you have
someone else finish putting it back together and hooking everything up, I would recommend calling Paul and going over
it with him, since he knows this machine very well.
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