Old Iron retrofits

This is a good subject maybe someone with the time can
put together a website.
I have a friend on the other end of the size scale. He
has Hermes Engraving machine, that had the main board
die. It was a 8086 Multibus 1 board with propriotary
roms, a mouse took leak on the board and that killed it.
He was converted to a 3 axis stepper board & a 386 PC
running the control program. The old Hermes machines
used eprom cartridges to store jobs. and you have to
send them back to Hermes when the are full to have them
erased. The conversion cost about the same as having a
set of cartridges erased. Not including the new layout
software of course but he still came out ahead in the
long run.

>
> Hi Don,
> I am doing the exact same thing. I bought a Shizuoka cnc bed mill with a fanuc
> 6MB (is yours a 6MB or 6MA?). My motherboard was missing a y axis translation
> IC (the 42 pin gold colored ICs in the middle of the motherboard). My motors
> are fanuc 0 and fanuc 5 dc brush with 2500 line encoders. In that reguard, I
> guess I am lucky. I bought a gecko G340 drive (already had two others) and am
> up and running on EMC. Still a lot of work to interface the tool changer,
> spindle drive and other stuff.
> I kept my motherboard and drives, but I may sell them when I am sure that
> everything is going to be ok with EMC.
> Repairs from fanuc are at least $1250 for them to glance at it...over $4 grand
> for a new motherboard (much more than I paid for the whole mill, including
> delivery)
> Keep us posted. I am sure we can help you.
> Richard
>
> gorton22 wrote:Hello everyone: My name is Don Blausey and I joined the group
> recently.
> I have a gorton mill with a fanuc 6m control on it. I have used this
> mill for the past few years in my home shop. While using it a few
> weeks ago the control died as it has frequently in the past year. I
> would like
> to save the drives and the motors and install a new control. I know
> that
> I will have to change the resolver to encoders. I have learned that
> from the many web sites I have viewed in the past few weeks. I have
> been following this site and am not sure if I am in the right place.
> This machine has a 10" x 50" table on it, and most of the post are for
> table top machines. I have checked out camsoft and a few others and
> not ready to spend that on this machine. Repairs on old boards are not
> cheap either. Has any one else done this or have a sugestion on what
> to do. Any help greatly appreciated.
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