Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Major Iron

Let me know how you like the Zevatech. I have worked with Fuji,
Panasonic, Mydata, and Phillips. But never Zevatech so I am curious after
you have used it a bit how you like it.


At 06:53 AM 12/8/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
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>This may be a little off-topic but here goes. I bought 2 new (to me
>anyway) Zevatech SX 730 pick and place machines. Her twin sister
>arrives next week.
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>It was delivered this past Friday, it took 3 men an and a boy (my 15
>year-old son) to sweat and grunt it into place.
>
>It's sole purpose and function is to replace Ursulla, the wicked and
>evil pick-and-place bench top machine that has churned out 20,000
>Geckos to date.
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>My daughter named her after watching me struggle, fight, curse and
>plead with it to turn out workable boards. She said "this machine is
>evil just like Ursulla; that will be her name". And it fit.
>
>Ursulla is a svelte and petit girl that barely weighs 300 lbs.
>Zevatech and her sister is far more serious at 3,000 lbs.
>
>I am staring at a 5' by 5' by 5' cube that comprises the new 3,000 lb
>wonder. It is a marvel of black anodized metal, shiny chrome ways and
>glinting motors connected with pale blue transparent pnuematic tubing
>going to a myriad of actuators. There are Sony Magnascale linear
>encoders everywhere. Red laser beams by the dozens are shining from
>mirrors everywhere in its vast depths in their perfect directions. I
>stopped counting servomotors when I reached 8, there will still more.
>To me it looks like Darth Vadar's starship. It quietly hums with
>restrained power, an absolutely beautiful machine.
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>Tomorrow I have to learn tame and control this beast. Work has to be
>done especially seeing as how Ursulla is on strike again.
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>It promises to place near 14,000 parts per hour versus Ursulla's
>reluctant and moody 2,400. 14,000 perfectly placed parts to Ursulla's
>indifferently scattered ones.
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>I will soon find out if it ever will have a name; personally I hope
>it won't. If it works as promised, reliably and unstintingly, it will
>never have a personality that needs one.
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>In a way I will miss Ursulla; we have been thru a lot together, warts
>and all.
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>Mariss
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