RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Newbie bridgeport cnc conversion quetions

My current vocation includes retrofitting tape type NC machines to OpenCNC.
The customers like the ratio of function to cost.

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[mailto:CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of alphawolf45
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:17 AM
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Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Newbie bridgeport cnc conversion quetions

An old CNC machine on the other hand, you'll always have an old CNC
machine.

>
> Just a different opinion about retrofit candidates,
>
> Ron
> That's not a difference in opinion from me Ron..I got 14 pieces of 3

phase machinery in a 4400 sq.foot shop building..Everything bought on the
cheap and only after some intelligent reasoning..You are right, an old cnc
will always be an old cnc...But it's a stouter machine, done up cheaper than
an old manual machine thats been retrofitted..Optionally, I can change an
old servo motor or a ballscrew if it drops out or fails to perform to my
needs.So tell me again what is wrong with this reasoning? Old manual machine
is not inherintly better than an old cnc..There is nothing 'wrong' about
retrofitting a manual machine if that is how you choose to go..But I'd take
offense if you critisized my decision to upgrade an old cnc or spoke
condenscendingly about my cnc mills as being 'old'...I mean I use the term
'old' with affection but youre crinkling your nose...I say run what you
brung.
Steven





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