Well, it's time for an update, and I have good news and bad news!
The good news is that I have now changed the 3kW spindle motor for a brand new, shiny dual-voltage one. Wired up in delta and connected to a Chinese VFD, and it works! At the moment it's a drop-in replacement for the old one. But...
Hi Ross,
Thanks a lot for the advice, and info on your setup. The Phase Perfect converters do seem pretty, well, perfect. Unfortunately there's the issue of cost of not only the unit, but shipping and import duty/VAT. I'm totally with you on the "buy once, cry once" heuristic. But I think both...
Hi guys, it's me again, back with another frustratingly noobish question!
So to set the stage, previously my Maho was sat at work, with 16A 410V sockets on almost every wall. Very convenient. Now though, I've moved house, and finally been able to take the machine home with me. Of course, there's...
While I'm here, I promised pictures, so here you go:
I think this forum squashes them down a bit, so there are full-res photos in an imgur album here.
I've been attacking it with degreaser in various places for the past couple of weeks, so some photos might look a tiny bit cleaner. But honestly...
I mean, of course you're correct that it would've been possible to just ask all his questions here. And there is a monetary incentive for more content. But although I don't want to sound like I'm defending him just because I like his videos, here's why I think he deserves credit:
-Some people...
I've been wondering about this, does your machine have rotational encoders on its motors as well as the glass scales? Or does it just use a PID controlled entirely by the linear scales?
Google Translate is definitely amazing, despite its limits. Although since the manual is all images and not actual plain text, I'd have to run an OCR over it all to translate it. And I believe that's only available in Google via Google Lens on Android. I was looking for a way to do it on PC last...
Thanks so much for your help guys, Karl actually sent me some documents from a guy on a german forum, Zerspanungsbude, so massive thanks to him.
I also found the oiling plan on the MH600 manual, or "Conseils pour les produits lubrifiants". Thankfully someone has scribbled in the ISO equivalents...
Wow, thanks a lot Karl! The MH 600 manual seems very useful. A shame it's not in English but it's way better than nothing. I'll go through it and translate some.
°Engler! Never heard of that before. That's excellent though, I'll get some ISO 150 oil. Any idea of what to put in the gearboxes...
Hi all,
I've browsed this forum for a while but just signed up today, this is my first post. So I recently bought an MH 700 "Toolroom" machine, made in the 70s I think. It's a beast, works mostly fine but needs some real TLC for sure. It's had three coats of paint, the original green, blue on...
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