Ignoramus28053 fired this volley in news:JPmdnd7H4_nFrZ7RnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Yep, although at some future date, I wish to upgrade it to EMC^2, add a
4th axis, and some other niggling things. But yes... it's a nice machine. Kind of klunky and a bit prone to connector failures now and again -- but I'm not doing any production work with it.The only concessions to modernity on it right now are the changes I made to the motor drive and power supply connections. I added a slow-start VFC to the drive, and now signal reversals through the VFC, instead of switch-reversing it, and speed is still selected pneumatically with the variable sheaves, ranges manually by the shift lever. I also rewired the PS for single phase -- so the whole machine is on 240V single now, and most satisfactory.
The electronics are old, but pretty stable, the monitor has but a little burn, and mechanically, the machine is almost brand new. Hardly any wear at all in the ways.
I had some old scans of the manuals, and they were adequate for making the changes, but recently Dave Blank dug up some original BP manuals, and kindly sent them. So... I'm "fully equipped", except for having enough of the 30-type tool holders.
LLoyd