Shizuoka tool changer

Have a long time interest in the electronics and what you can do with good low cost bits and pieces. Am semi retiring, but still like to play with my well equipped shop. Providing your machine has not been neglected or lacked slide-way lubrication it should be fine.

The ball-screws on my machine were not fitted with an oil line, so I regularly lubed them. They are as good as the first day. I have always considered that they need to be able to do maybe RPM, as well as keeping those useful low range speeds.

Regards Stephen. She would let them go pretty cheap. If you are interested , pm me and I'll put you two in touch with each other. Dale wrote:. It's crazy how time flies. I figured I should post an update to my machine. I do have stepper motors and went with the Geckodrive x drivers and for my breakout board I used the Sainsmart 5 axis it appears they designed for Mach3.

Originally I used the stepper motors that came with the machine however I have upgraded to newer ones. I also went through the ball screws and adjusted to remove all the lash out of them. Now I'm down to about. Overall it was a pretty simple retrofit since I gutted the old controller and just used the power supply. Currently I'm using the tool changer manually since I haven't figured out how to get it to work and quite frankly it's not too much trouble at this point to change the tools. Register Forgot password?

What's New? Likes: 0. Results 1 to 2 of 2. Thread: Shizuoka SV tool changer issues. This is one bidding increment above the current bid on this item. The bidding increment is determined by the amount of the current bid. The table below explains how bid increments are calculated. Your proxy bid amount is kept confidential from other bidders. You can lower or delete a proxy bid by entering a lower amount. Below I have included a brief explanation of how the ATC and its signals work.

You don't have to read the explanation. I'm just including it for your convenience. I have also include two pdf files that give a more detailed explanation. Each is 3 pages long 6 pages total. There are 4 pages of reading with a diagram and a list of M codes. I have also attached three pictures that show a part of my schematic that deals with the ATC. Lastly, I am using the following hardware on my machine. Using Figure 3. The external controller must contain a switching device which will close when a command is given to the controller to perform tool-out.