I Bought a Giant 40 Year Old CNC Machine

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@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Infomercial Sean might be unhinged, but you can still support the channel at shop.idlehandsdev.com

@bonkbonk92 Жыл бұрын

Old CNCs, clever video editing, humor, perfection! Keep it up man!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@christianheidt5733 Жыл бұрын

I'll program that on the machine in like 1/2 hr using g71, g72, & g75 and it certainly won't be 300 lines of code! Great vid!

@christianheidt5733 Жыл бұрын

Also I can reprogram depths of cuts on the fly by changing variables in the can cycles. Which means I can prove out the program in 5 minutes flat. Been doing this for 35 years now

@hacksmith Жыл бұрын

That was fantastic!!! Loved the narrative -- these videos just keep getting better!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks! That really means a lot.

@llMarvelous 8 ай бұрын

Guys, you grew so large, you’ve done many epic things, help this man grow too, such a potential, I can’t believe he has only 150K, this content deserves couple of millions at least @SH keep up keeping up, man, you doing amazing! It’s very inspiring, coz I’m doing stuff too, and your videos got to me at right time! Thank you!

@evanbarnes9984 Жыл бұрын

Dude, you've become the William Gibson of KZfaq maker channels! I love the cyberpunk nearby alternate reality and the overtones of Max Headroom and Lance Boyle of Megarace

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

The possibilities are literally endless now

@UnexpectedMaker Жыл бұрын

Sean, your workshop is looking amazing (from what I could glimpse) - I'd love to see more of the space when you are ready!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I should get a mobile livestream working and do a Q&A workshop tour!

@TradieTrev Жыл бұрын

That's a mad project mate! I wish you the best of luck, the old ladies were meant to last!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

She fired right up!

@Roetz40 Жыл бұрын

I used to own a MS Sl-5a. These are incredibly well made machines and the fanuc controlls (I had a 10t) were way ahead of its age. Keep this machine, fill the lubrication system every once in a while and it will run forever with really great precision and stability! Loved the cyberpunked session!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Love to hear it! I want to keep it going for as long as I can on the original hardware. We’ll see how that goes. Thanks!

@jsihavealotofplaylists Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins Bubble memory?

@idus Жыл бұрын

@@jsihavealotofplaylists I was using dnc until it froze at 100k lines on my mill. I think lathes have smaller programs when 2axis and dnc should be just fine. Off topic but you mentioned memory and I had to add to it.

@markoreilly3414 Жыл бұрын

1st CNC I ever worked was a MS TL-5 , saw it installed as a 2nd yr apprentice (17), it's still in use now, & I'm 57, that's 40 yrs of constant use in the same shop ! Awesome machines.

@WatchWesWork Жыл бұрын

Those are still pretty viable machines. Those are "yellow cap" Fanuc brushed DC servos. It should use a +/- 10V analog signal instead of step and direction. The 6T is a good control that can do anything a 2 axis lathe should ever need to do. The offsets are kind weird as I recall, they don't really have a work offset, but there are ways around that. I had a 1980 Mazak Slant Turn 15 with a Fanuc 6T control. It was a solid machine.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Still learning more about it every day! It uses a grid system with G50. I'm not doing that though. I'm just basing all of the tool offsets from tool 1. So tool 1 is "0, 0" and all the other offsets are the difference from there. So I will call, say tool 2, with T0200, so that it switches tools, then T0202 to load the offset and move to that location.

@WatchWesWork Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins That works. You may find it more convenient to set your tool Z offset from a fixed location (face of the collet nose or whatever), then set the G50 from the same location. That way you don't have to reset the tools for every job, you just have to set the G50, which as I recall is done inside the program. There were some other weird things. Using constant surface speed the RPMs would go wonky during a tool change. That was so annoying I pretty much gave up using it. Also I had to add a couple relays to trick the PLC so I could do bar pulling. Without those relays the control would not allow a feed move with an RPM of zero or with the chuck open.

@rep2403 Жыл бұрын

On my machine, I tool index and set my Z offsets from Z G30 2nd reference return pos position. There are a lot of ways to do this, but for me, this is the cleanest way to work with a machine that only has offset for wear(there is no geometry page). My format is G30 U0 W0; Txx00; G50 X0 Z0; then set G50 Xx Zx (offset values) from this location. This is, of course, if you have the optional 2nd ref return on the machine. My machine moves the slides the instant it pickups the values in the wear register at the TxxXX line. Can you give you a heart attack if the values are too large or might over-travel if done at home pos. It's good practice to limit your offsets to about .010

@galactica1980 Жыл бұрын

Was about to say they are dc M series servos. Beat me to it man.

@CrawfordMethod Жыл бұрын

There are a couple of ways to do tool offsets on a 6T machine... the most modern way is if your machine has the “custom macro B” option. If you have this option you can write a little code to made it behave like a modern machine with geometry offsets. My machine doesn’t have this option, it’s slightly older with the DC spindle and the brushed servos. You have a very desirable old piece of iron! I have a video on my channel describing how to program with G50 offsets if you want to see another way to do it.

@rep2403 Жыл бұрын

The Fanuc System 6 b is a very robust piece of hardware. This one of the first "modern" controls. I think its 1st control to have that fancy CRT. I'm convinced one these controls will be running when they are a 100 years old. The oldest I run was installed in December of 1979, runs almost every day with little to no maintenance. Some I/o board relays are getting wonky thou, replaced the main power supply once, and replaced the encoder cables in 2006. The other hardware is untouched in my 20 years of knowing the machine. This control made me an undying Fanuc loyalist with purchasing newer machines. It has it quirks but, if you look thru the lens of 1980. It's was ground breaking technology. Long live the SYSTEM 6!!!!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I’ll be 97 when it’s 100 so it may be a little bit difficult to test this theory but I’ll try my best!

@Screw_This Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you survived the persistance of vision Christmas tree of death project. This is another great video. And that lathe is a beast.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

This version of me did at least!

@hellraizer322 Жыл бұрын

Such a great video! Looking forward to what you have in store next!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I have no idea what’s coming next 👀

@MichielDeJong56b5g Жыл бұрын

Perfection! A real art piece

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@handleshtick 6 ай бұрын

Wow, this was great! It's been a long time since I've seen so much creativity and ingenuity packed into a youtube video. And the machine is sick, very jealous! Hats off!

@djoobstil Жыл бұрын

That was awesome. Just the right amount of strange to captivate until the very end. Loved it.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Need to be a little strange to want to buy one of these machine tbh lol

@zacharyclark4524 Жыл бұрын

That thing is surprisingly clean for as old as it is! Nice work too!

@hirochima26 Жыл бұрын

about 5:30 i used to work on a MAHO1000 and in order to get all lines of program sent to the cnc you need EOT in the end of the programm which is " alt + 4 " ,otherwise i always get 5 lines missing, and that should solve the problem of missing lines in the end it would be nice if you reply with a feed back :3

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

And again, learning incredibly useful information from the comments section. Thank you!

@hirochima26 Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins you're welcome glad i could help :D

@MakerGrigio Жыл бұрын

Sean, you are an inspiration to makers everywhere! writing, editing, Shots, lighting. and a unique promotion. Fantastic! just saw this, spinner is already at 8 bucks.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yep $8 almost sold out. I think the ideal price is $16 so still a deal. Lol

@falklan Ай бұрын

When I started an industrial machine shop program they had recently purchased a CNC mill, and by the time it was delivered and installed, it was obsolete. None of us had CNC training and I was one of the last few people to complete the 2 year course before they closed the machine shop program.

@victorinamine3720 10 ай бұрын

I'm from Brazil and I watch your videos. I loved your channel. Fantastic!!! Keep posting videos with this machine

@randomrouting Жыл бұрын

Sweet machine, thanks for sharing 👍👍

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for watching!

@PCBWay Жыл бұрын

Just blown away when watching the end ! Good story and excellent acting. ❤

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Whos acting? 😆 Thank you!

@wizrom3046 2 ай бұрын

I've done elec tech work on that era of machines ie 70's and 80's CPUs. Those huge boards full of chips use a lot of DC power and get real hot, so you get bad connection issues on connectors due to heat and chip failures due to heat. If you want to use this for proper production work, I recommend real good fan cooling of the enclosures using modern fans that move more air (ie remove more heat). Also, check the DC supply lines for ripple and noise they are usually under-capacitored and the caps degrade over years too. You can scope the rails and check that, and examine electros for bulging cases. Also sagging 5v rails etc. Another good idea is to put liberal amounts of a good brand name electrical connector lube on all the plug connectors, especially important if it has been in or will be in a higher humidity environment. Good luck!

@agepbiz Жыл бұрын

Love the editing! Great video

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks, there wouldn’t be any video without it! 😁

@WieslawPaleta 8 ай бұрын

Synth music in your productions is just great! I love it :D

@douglaspierce7031 Жыл бұрын

As an individual who has been running machines like this since the 80's, the punch tape does not necessarily run the machine. It was mainly storage media because the machine has internal storage. The only time we ever ran machines off the tape was if the program exceeded the storage of the machine. Machines that were just NC, required the tape to run. We typically wrote programs longhand on a programming sheet then, used a Flexowriter typewriter to create the punched tape. You could splice the tapes with edits or make edits at the machine then connect a tape punch to the RS-232 to punch a new tape. Also, programming is simplified by the use of canned cycles that allowed you to rough and finish by defining the finished shape and using a 2-line code to establish depth of cut and stock allowances. CAD\CAM software was available but, the cost of the software was almost as much as the machine. Back in those days, a machine like this cost about 3x the average cost of a house. Those old Mori-Seiki lathes were indestructible along with the Fanuc controls. Nice score!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Really cool, thanks for the history! I’m not sure how to use the canned cycles yet. I would love to find a tape punching machine just for fun.

@hamadaag5659 8 ай бұрын

It's so encouraging to see someone I look up to who also has T1D, this is amazing.

@Daniel.B_63 Жыл бұрын

It's great to see you posting again... This video was brilliant! Looking forward to seeing your next video👍 Keep up the awesome work, Sean!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cidadaoPPT Жыл бұрын

Perfection!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Gauntletbloggs 7 ай бұрын

Just stumbled upon your channel and i'm thoroughly impressed with the production quality/entertainment value of your content! Cnc turner here, you're going to want to look into canned cycles for longhand gcode programming, line by line positional programming is great if you're generating it using a post processor and DON'T have to type it all out by hand, it does give you a lot more control over each movement but you can produce programs far more quickly and introduce a more parametric structure to each cycle with canned cycles, once you've got the basic format down for each type of cycle you can simply tweak the conditions to your liking and get a result much more quickly than essentially spelling out every movement the machine needs to make. They're the next best thing to conversational programming and can save a lot of time once you get to grips with them.

@richardhaugh5076 2 ай бұрын

Worked on those machines when they were state of the art. I go back to the nc machines that used vacuum tubes. Our Mori’s were the first cnc machines with a crt. Brings back good memories. Going to retire next year with 47 years in the machining business.

@jimmywesterberg9957 2 ай бұрын

My first video! It was awesome so hoping for many more CNC videos in the future! 🤟

@cielakovsky Жыл бұрын

Great video! Wow, 3:34 and other PCBs is like poetry (I am more electronic than mechanic) :) Good luck with this machine!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

They are really cool. Thank you!

@alexcrouse Жыл бұрын

I just stumbled across this channel and this video was ART. Fantastic work! Welcome to the world of old ass machines!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Now I just need to keep it going!

@williamprimeee Жыл бұрын

i just love this, every time i see an upload i drop everything to watch it, i LOVE your channel. Keep up the exquisite work, i love the style

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Wow I appreciate that, I hope your job isn’t like monitoring a nuclear reactor or something though. Lol

@aerobiotic Жыл бұрын

New (old) toys are fun. Glad to see you posting videos again.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Really fun, even more so now that I know it works!

@steveggca Жыл бұрын

Hi Sean nice looking machine ! If it is a 1985 or later machine I might have done the original installation, assuming it was sold new in canada . The servo drives are +/-10vdc analog Not stepper .if you look on the drive you might see a DAC chip . If you need a new rabbit hole to fall into Do some research on bubble memory. That was the original memory used There once was a thriving business of selling unauthorized replace memory boards because bubble was very expensive and not so reliable Oh if you have not done so already its Extremely important to check the condition and length of the servo motor brushes .there is a section in the manual explaining how

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thats amazing, it is a 1985 I believe! Great! Ill check it out. I have all the documentation for the machine. I might even have a receipt if the brushes were ever replaced.

@drafty0183 10 ай бұрын

One of our oldest machines (an Okuma MC60-VA) uses bubble memory. Not very big at all, but then there's the floppy disk for a backup, and program storage.

@lariatcanada7226 7 ай бұрын

This is exactly how I learned when I took CNC machining in my second year in college. Writing code on Windows 95 then using RS-232 to "drip" the lines into a running machine because it had a very limited memory. A pro tip from a bad student is to make bigger spaces on your number lines. Instead of counting N01,N02,N03, etc. Go N001,N005,N010. That way if you mess up and need to add something in you can edit directly on the machine adding a line in between. Loved the video!

@tugaric Жыл бұрын

bro, I'm equally amazed you got space to store all of those beauties. I might be hyper jalous. Anyway awesome vid

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I'm still amazed every time I walk into the place.

@1jarvin1 Жыл бұрын

That commercial gives me such Mr. Robot vibes somehow. Very surreal vibe, well done!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

It’s not a gimmick!

@tristanpatterson3843 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff. Love the videography style.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@samtennery1182 5 ай бұрын

just came across your channel. I was a cnc machinist for 35 yrs. I ran and programmed several mori lathes. SL-1 SL-6 SL-8 and SL-80. all with fanuc controls. mostly 6t but some with earlier versions and some newer up to 10t. then mori went into "conversational programming" where you could describe a part boundary, part geometry, tooling geometries, and it would generate g-code for the tool paths on the machine. similar to mazatrol programming on mazaks. glad to see these can still be in use today.

@samtennery1182 5 ай бұрын

that thing looks pristine it must've been in shrink wrap or something. i even still have an old mylar program tape from back in the day but its for an allen-bradley control on some warner-swasey lathes. they were a previous generation of programming called leading zero and in radius programming. so a 1.125 dia. would be X005625 on the program. from the looks of your x-z program numbers your using mm dimensions.

@vitymp007 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks

@Sammers987Man Жыл бұрын

2:08 *YES I DO* thank you for documenting this machine before it is lost to time!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, the videos currently available online are interesting but not a lot of details on them. I’m glad you appreciate it as much as I do

@gizelle-s Жыл бұрын

You're criminally underrated, you never fail to impress!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words! It really means a lot.

@chadjensenster Жыл бұрын

Holy shit! This is pure art

@rust_embedded Жыл бұрын

Exponential sales, brilliant! 😄

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

It sort of ensures I won't need to make them forever!

@user-qj9xb2mg9n Жыл бұрын

cool as hell

@GermanMythbuster 7 ай бұрын

OMG you have to build a flux capacitor in to the Tape reader compartment! 3:48 - The door window looks just like in the movie 😱🤩🤩

@BloodAsp Жыл бұрын

Awesome machine! Not too long ago I traveled shop to shop retrofitting these bad boys to receive their programs from wifi. It was a fun job, I had a good boss, but rarely saw them as I was on the road a lot. I dealt with the gambit of machines from shiny new, micro, old crusty trusty, the behemoths, and so on. My favorite to see were always the age old ones where the circuitry hasn't seen the light of day since the days of yore, those always had beautiful hand routed traces. What an art! The issue you had with the end not sending was a common error. Take a look at the hidden special characters and what your machine expects. I don't recall off the top of my head what your machine expects, but that is the likely cause in my experience. I honestly miss that job, but seeing all the shops, electronics, set ups, parts, infrastructure, not to mention the people was great. I took something with less travel for a bit of sanity though. Maybe the funniest thing was when I had to get on a machine to retrofit it, told the foreman, he laughed, said the only guy who knew how to operate that dinosaur was out. I asked to look at it anyway, started poking at it, and got it up without ever being one one of those specific machines before. The dude flat out offered me a job on the spot. I chuckled and asked if he'd be paying for my three day commute each time. Besides, I don't actually know how to machine, just how to interface with them. This video brought me back to those days, thanks.

@BloodAsp Жыл бұрын

It looks like bunger8658 already mentioned the specific one, awesome viewers!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Great story, it will be a sad day when there are no more of these old dinosaurs. Luckily there will always be a small handful of people keeping them going. I like the wifi idea. I've been thinking about it more and more and it would make more sense to just have a raspberry pi to send over the program. and I could maybe program it to automatically enable the "read" and set the program name. I will look into the end character, that does sound like what is happening. I think maybe I forgot to add it into the NC transfer program.

@MrChaso123 Жыл бұрын

Is there anyway you could point me in the right direction of how to upgrade an old dinosaur to take programs over wifi? Currently using Dnet hubs and punching over the programs. Would be amazing to bring these old machines into the 21st century…

@BloodAsp Жыл бұрын

@@MrChaso123 I'm not with that team any more, but if you run a machine shop that you wanted up, I'm sure they'd talk with you. Leave an email and I'll send you their site. If you are particularly ambisious, Sean's mention of a raspberry pi works for others. I'm haven't seen it my self, but I've heard of it and can beleive it's been done a number of times.

@austiwawa Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! Keep it up Sean!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think you're in the area? If you ever want to come check out the shop let me know. (jump on the discord if you want)

@enso- 10 ай бұрын

Dude, your videos are amazing!

@meisenhut31 Жыл бұрын

What an incredible machine!

@MichaelNatrin Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@mchristr 3 ай бұрын

You're living the dream my friend. I'm probably too old to learn CNC programming but I'd love to waste my retirement playing with a manual Bridgeport.

@nefariousyawn Жыл бұрын

This is very exciting. I'm no machinist, but the beauty looks beastly enough to cut more than a little brass. Have you tried programming the arm to do the loading and starting on the machine?

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Yeah I don’t think it even knows the brass is there.

@dhoodlum4129 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@adicahya Жыл бұрын

wow ... Sean. The workshop i was working, bought a second-hand CNC 5-axis once. When we bought it, i think is around 15 years old or something. We have some trouble with it. Sometimes works, sometimes not, until we gave up one day. See all the PCB board, the chuck, the tools and everything brings back memories :)

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Ill keep is going as long as I can, but this machine is definitely a lot "simpler" than a 5-axis. I hoping it will stick around for awhile.

@itsryanjudd Жыл бұрын

Have no idea what a single piece of this equipment is or does, but the editing in this video is just great

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I like to think you gained a little bit of knowledge, no? Lol

@lzus6676 Жыл бұрын

Having suffered through a similar project myself, i can recommend to change your PP to only add sequence numbers on tool change. It dramatically reduces the filesize and transfer times while being funtionally an improvement if you need to jump to certain operations.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

That is an excellent idea, I hadn't thought of that. Searching without the sequence numbers is just as easy since a computer screen is right there.

@garrettparmenter938 Жыл бұрын

Love the video artistry and making of oddities. Im tier 3. Happy to help.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks you! We will let the will of the people decide on the final price. haha

@bluerider0988 5 ай бұрын

Man, i really enjoyed the feel of the video. Amazing. Subscribed. Wish i found it sooner.

@Bu5H84 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@DEV_XO Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@MarcSallent Жыл бұрын

I came here super early and the $1 spinners were still available, but shipping to Barcelona was $10... So not buying the spinner but buying one of those Super Thanks. I prefer you to keep the money and not some postal service

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Wow thank you! Shipping costs are the bane of my existence.

@radekgrabski3482 Жыл бұрын

I love what you`r doing, love your creativity and sence of humor. I wish you will produce more ! grettings form Poland Europe !

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I definitely will, Thanks! Hello to all my viewers from Poland!

@Cartierusm Жыл бұрын

Good find. I bought a 1978 Mori SL1 Lathe about 6 or 7 Years ago. I ripped out the electronics and servos and put new servos in, built an electronics cabinet, used mach 4, wrote some code for the Mod Bus and PLC to control the tool changer and now it's like any other modern CNC Lathe, but better as Mach 4 is way easier to learn (I've been using Mach for 20+ years) than FANUC. They are great lathes, enjoy.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Want to do it again? haha Ill see how long I live with the original system.

@Cartierusm Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins LOL Sure!! Where do you live? Should I email you from the email in your "about"?

@Thomas-je5rj Жыл бұрын

Tellement sympa comme projet ! Tout mon soutien cette chaîne est une perle

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Awesome, Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@SmileyFace01 Жыл бұрын

very nice!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Mitch3D Жыл бұрын

Great video! I love these old CNC restorations, it would be cool to make a modern post processor to punch tape converter so you can use the original tape reader. I ordered one of those spacetime spinners, love the idea of doubling prices to make limited edition items.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Limited edition, those are the words I was looking for! Anyway, I had that exact conversation with my friend today, the punch tape idea. I would love to get the punch tape working on the machine.

@BloodAsp Жыл бұрын

Ohhh, that is a rager of an idea, I love it!

@steveggca Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins Hi Sean If you are going to do tape punch right, the name you need to know is Facit . there should still be a few machines around , be warned though, industry abandoned tape in the mid 80's without a single tear shed (except maybe by Lars the NA Facit distributer) , any that are left would be setting abandoned and forgotted in a storage room. With the addition of the rs232 port and some actual program storage memory (see my bubble comment), programs were loaded either with a pc on a cart, or all the cool kids would have a Facit n1050 (Lars is happy again) floppy drive. the n1050 (and/or a PC) could also "dripfeed" the program, if it was larger that storage memory. We used to use words like non-volitile way back then 🤓. Any how back to tape, before "large" non-volitiale memory , the tape was spliced into a continous loop ,read as needed, and then stop at program end ,ready for the next run. Once again there were cool kids and they would use mylar instead of paper. The aerospace companies had profiling milling programs 100's of metres long. Have you by chance wondered why early cnc refered to program memory in Metres?

@alangunn7254 8 ай бұрын

I spent a fun week or two some years ago getting "BTRs" (Behind Tape Readers) working on a bunch of machines in Scotland. 🙂 They were for machines that ONLY had tape readers (No RS232!) and simulated the action of the holes sliding past the reader! :-)

@bluustreak6578 Жыл бұрын

As a machine interested computer programmer, I have dreams about getting an old cnc machine sometimes, filled with panik over the work needed to get it running, mixed with faschination over what it can do. This video speaks to me with the layers of lore, synthwave, and machining. Like a clip from a weirdly interesting movie

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I knew I wasn't the only one! I was a little worried it wouldn't work, but good thing I was wrong. Just need to keep it going.

@bansci Жыл бұрын

Millception Dude, amazing work both in getting it working and in video production.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm still amazed I got the machine running.

@mystamo Жыл бұрын

Sean posts.. I clickk.. Making Canada proud one video at a time.

@backinyourcommentsectionag3191 Жыл бұрын

Holy shit! I absolutely loved this video! Sean you simply do not post enough this was wonderful The production was next level too! also Karl Casey music is a nice touch, it's so cool there are people like him willing to make such bangers and just decide to give em' out for the low low cost of exposure

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am learning to post more now that my shop is in a "finished state", where I'm not focusing on the shop itself. Karl Casey is amazing. His channel is doing quite well.

@backinyourcommentsectionag3191 Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins Absolutely! That's wonderful news to hear! I quite look forward to seeing more of your videos! Good luck and god speed soldier o7

@TomCei 6 ай бұрын

Back in 2009 I worked on one of these exact cnc lathes. We called it the Mori Shocki. There was a short somewhere and if you touched the control panel while closing the door, you'd get a nice little shock. We also had to keep the back open and a fan on it to keep it from overheating. Poor machine shops, man lol.

@midwestcyberpunk Жыл бұрын

In a genre of mostly dry but informative videos, you always manage to squeeze out creative gold

@midwestcyberpunk Жыл бұрын

or brass in this case

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Love it.

@MikeKasprzak Жыл бұрын

Awesome. It lives!! Also, the Panasonic PVM makes an appearance! 😆

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I love that thing, still working great!

@espenbjrnbak3863 6 ай бұрын

Really Cool storytelling!

@SeanHodgins 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@SshanIcsS Жыл бұрын

Holly shit. This Videos are awsome. Pls make more. As an CNC Operator I cant get enough.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Awesome what kind of machines do you run?

@SshanIcsS Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins In training I started with a Deckel FP2 and a Maho Mh500 milling machine (both from the 70s and very popular in Germany. Nowadays very popular for home use). Today I am working on machines like a Herme C32 or a C22 and from time to time on an Index R200. No machine older than 5 years but the enthusiasm for the old machines remains. No new machine can keep up with that. The machines give you something back when you work on them.

@kfasllc Жыл бұрын

The machine appears to be in great condition. The electrical cabinet looks really clean (perhaps you gave it some TLC after you acquired it?). These Mori Seiki SL1 ~SL8 series lathes were real workhorses here in Houston, Texas in the oil tool industry in the 80s and well into the 90s. There are still many machine shop owners here holding on to these for "sentimental value" (the very first CNC machine they bought etc.). In case you do not have yet, here are some manuals you may want for future reference. Fanuc 6T-B Maintenance Manual B52245E, DC Servo M-Series Maintenance Manual B53265E, AC Spindle Maintenance Manual B53425E. Great video!

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I actually didn't clean any of the electrical stuff. Some of the seals are crumbling to pieces, but everything looks well taken care of. Thanks for the manual references. I have the Fanuc 6T-B one I think, but missing the others.

@cmleoj Жыл бұрын

Your machine is so clean.👍🏻✔️😀

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

It only required a little scrubbing!

@cmleoj Жыл бұрын

@@SeanHodgins hours and hours…

@lachlanlau Жыл бұрын

That is one beautiful old machine. There is a magic to vintage machines you just don't get on anything new..

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't mind a new one either... haha but I do love the look and feel of this, and like the idea of keeping it going for another however many years.

@fedeyoutub 6 ай бұрын

nice video, I'm really curious about the spindle runout, and the precision of the axes, could you do a test with a comparator to see the precision of the repositioning?

@karlexceed Жыл бұрын

I can't shake the feeling that infomercial Sean was trying to tell me something...

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I think he’s just overreacting…

@TomoHawKzZ Жыл бұрын

I just found this channel, I'm not sure what pulls me in more, the DIY projects or the overhanging sci-fi lore of impending doom.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you! More to come.

@mikejurkowski Жыл бұрын

Bought and paid for. Sweet idea. Fantastic weird vibe to the video.

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for buying one! They're all shipped out now.

@charlesnunn5352 Жыл бұрын

Very nice good to see the old girl running. Rock solid lathe one of the best Mori Made and the Fanuc 6T is just as well made. It's If this SL-1 is out of the southern California area good chance I crossed paths with this machine. I worked on them back in the day. Have fun with it. Thank you it brought memories

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

This one is up in Ontario Canada! Thanks, Ill keep it going for as long as I can

@vincentsteinmetz3726 Жыл бұрын

fun and brilliant 👍

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@kayboku7281 5 ай бұрын

I used to operate a very similar range of cnc machines when i was an apprentice fitter and turner, and yes we did load one of the okumas with punch tape! But that was old technology then (1994), but cad cam did not exist, so you had to write the gcode programs by hand. Most of the machines had 5 1/4 inch disk drives, so you could write the program on a 386 computer, put it on the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk and put it onto the machine. Nice to see one still running!

@kayboku7281 5 ай бұрын

is it an okuma with a fanuc controller? I cant quite tell from the video

@AmalMathewTech Жыл бұрын

After a long time ❤

@KitarpLive Жыл бұрын

Nice video !

@SeanHodgins Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@Supercecco85 8 ай бұрын

We have Mori Seikis in Ansaldo Energia in Genoa, we use them to produce the smaller blades for Gas and Steam Turbines. The versions in the Blade Workshop are now newer than this one but fairly sure we used one like this one 30 years ago.