Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Major Iron

Wow, thats a lotta Gecko's! good luck on the new machines, oh i want one of
those walking bubble blowing Gecko's i see on tv. cul brian f.

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From: <mariss92705@...>
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Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 1:53 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Major Iron


> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Tomorrow I have to learn tame and control this beast. Work has to be
> done especially seeing as how Ursulla is on strike again.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> In a way I will miss Ursulla; we have been thru a lot together, warts
> and all.
>
> Mariss
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