Every time @holla2040 posts another new fancy accomplishment with his laser and Crossfire Pro table. My automatic and only response is going to be
“Bite me.”
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Believe me, I understand!
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@ChelanJim I know you had good intentions moving all those posts out of this thread, but it completely disrupted the other thread so you can just delete it altogether.
I don’t see how the old posts were disruptive here.
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@holla2040 - Bite me.
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Just to iterate the sentiment
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Snagged an amada rg35 last week. Pretty good deal on it. Should get delivered this week hopefully. I gotta find some new tooling or some adapters since its euro tooling.
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Love watching videos like these.
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This project you did is very impressive.
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Thanks Johnny.
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Shes a beaut clark.
Got the pump running with a vfd. Dont have 3ph in this shop. I’ve got it at the bin site, someday I’ll have a new shop over there.
It had pneumatic lifters and light curtain. Ripping all that out. Its definitely cool seeing some of the innovations on this era of a press. Was definitely a sweet ride back in the day. The mechanism for the pedal is cool. Its got 3 limit switches for the pedal. One for slow speed bend, one for high speed bend and one for return. So if you barely push the pedal it would have ran slow speed the whole way. Big push is high speed until the ram hits the slow trigger.
Tearing all of that out. Got a raspberry pi on a touch screen that is going to flip relays to run all the valves. Got a rotary encoder that will tell it ram position. Slow speed will be triggered by the ram position. Probably going to switch to a two stage pedal as some point to recreate the variable pedal feel.
Back gauge is going to be 2x nema 34s with homing switches. Stage 1 of my controller build is just basic controls. Goto BG settings, ram height and speed controls with limits. Next stage I’ll add in programs. Programmable from the machine or from laptop and sent over. Stage 3 has a bunch of goodies Im going to add in.
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Get yourself a Phase Converter. I use an American Rotary 5 hp version. Works great, but very loud. They sell them by HP rating. $400 about.
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Most of the ones I’ve seen are in the 1-3k range. This 5hp VFD works great so far. Soft start and stop. Adjustable speed. I’ve used a similar one on my drill press for years. Got a nice walker Turner from the 40s. Motor went out so I went vfd and 3 ph for variable speed. Its awesome.
I dont need anything else on the press to be powered from it. Push a button for the pump and push a button for the controller.
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Thats cheaper than most the ones I was seeing. I did most of my phase converter research when i was looking at a used guifil press that used a large pump. I think if i went the rotary route I would shoot for a 15-20 hp one. Then maybe i could run an ironworker too someday if i find a deal on one.
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Wisdom. Always get some overhead for when you wish you had at a later date. Buy once, cry once.
Lots of great work here.
I’m still struggling along, but getting better.
This one is for my grandson Colton.
Now I just have to figure out what paint to use.
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A few new projects of mine
House numbers with some
Screw covers I 3d printed
Dog tags and a sign I made
for a ranch owner near me.
My powder coating is getting
good!
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