Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CNC Welding, Any Real Experience Out There?

If anyone is close to Cleveland, HGR Industrial has quite a few robots
for sale pretty cheap...
http://www.hgrindustrialsurplus.com

erie

Raymond Heckert wrote:

>The machine we got had six degrees of freedom (waist, arm, elbow, wrist,
>hand, finger). Lincoln also had one mounted on a gantry that had about
>16 feet of movement. It could be programmed with respect to any of the
>axes (and be switched between any of them). This feature gave it
>tremendous versatility, as far as getting into awkward (is that how
>that's spelled?) welding positions. Someone has developed a program that
>monitors current for torch height control in a plasma-cutter. Perhaps,
>that could be modified to allow for a seam-tracking simulation?
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