I had quite a momentous week! I have been searching for a CNC router for a number of years to make patterns for aluminum castings and molds for composite body panels. Somehow I stumbled in to this deal...
I searched craigslist of all places and found an absolute smoking deal on this CNC router (It works!) The owner had it in a detached garage at the back of his lot. He was remodeling his house to sell on the market and absolutely needed it gone.... We got to talking and he also had a currently non functional Haas VF-0E in the same detached garage. He had pulled the vector drive (Haas' servo drive) from it to power a different machine at his shop which had broken. He said "Look, if you are interested in the router and can get it next week I will give you the Haas for free..."
So I showed up with my rigger and we moved his machines!
Currently they are in storage...Not that I needed more motivation to finish the Twin cam...but once it is done that will open a space in the garage for these beauties. The PO had elected to cut his header to fit the Haas in his garage. I believe you can remove the motor and the pneumatic counterweight which will allow it to fit under a 7" garage door.
The news on the press brake has been good so far. I am convinced that the issue was a bad winding in the X axis motor. This caused a failure which overloaded the servo drive and blew some capacitors and a thermal resistor on the power side. The servo drives are tied in pairs, so one failure took out 2 drives. Once the new capacitors were replaced, the drives appear to be functioning again. I found out that the previous owner had sent the motor in to be repaired recently, and that it was still under warranty! I dropped it off for repair this week so hopefully the press will be operational soon!
