Re: Kearney and Trecker

Hi Ethan,

Is that one of the horizontal mills with the built-in rotary table
which is the 4th axis? It has a tool changer, right?

My pessimistic impression is those are extremely difficult to
retrofit whether you use a free(?) system like EMC or go high dollar
Fanuc.

Time frame.....years for the novice. Plus big bucks, I'm assuming
very little of the existing drives and motors would be useable,
easily $10K+ could be spent on new stuff.

No offense meant, but based on auction observations large older K&T's
have a market value around $25 or less. That tells me something
about their potentional for successful retrofits.

To get some feel for the task, how about checking with a professional
retrofitter in your area?

good luck,

Doug

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Ethan Vos <ethan@f...> wrote:
> Good morning all.
>
> I have an old K&T 600 4 axis machine that I need to retrofit.
Wandering
> around the web I came across the EMC site and noticed that they did
a
> retrofit on a K&T 800. I think that machine was done around 1995
and I'd
> guess the software has undergone a few revisions since then.
>
> How easy is it to do this compared to an off the shelf product?
>
> What kind of time frame would you expect to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ethan