S/N 30030
CNC 10 (Running some version of linux as the OS)
Mori Seiki SL10 Lathe
I can turn on the spindle manually to do skim cuts and setup tooling, but the spindle will not work in a program, I can put "M3 S1000" in MDI and nothing happens.
History if it helps:
Was apparently bought from a school before I got it.
I got this lathe off craigslist, After lots of troubleshooting, I found a fiber cable had been broken before I got it and after fixing that, the controller started working (Could not see the PLC before then) After that, the Turret was out of alignment, After buying a parts manual for the diagrams, I found someone had reinstalled the turret off a spline, got all that figured out and thought I was home free..
I downloaded a Post for fusion and drew up a very simple part. This being my first attempt at a CNC lathe I was just going to do a test cut in the air. It started moving the tool to where it starts cutting and just stopped, after I while I figured out if I rotated the spindle by hand, It would move in (it was reading the spindle position - CSS)
For some reason, in auto mode the controller will not start the spindle. I can start it manually through the control, so that indicates the controller can start the spindle, but it just seems to ignore the M3 commands in auto mode.
I did run the "pawn" program that was in the c drive and it acts the same way - rules out a post processor issue.
I remember before I fixed the turret, I ran one of the programs on the hard drive and the spindle turned on, but for some reason it is not now, I have taken apart the "computer/controller" a couple of times to try and figure out if I could add a MPG, but put it back together and it work's fine other that this issue. I was an IT pro as of 6 months ago, I know my way around computes, been doing that for 15 years, I cant think of anything I did that could have caused this issue.
Thank you in advance for helping me get my 4000 dollar boat anchor working hopefully
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