I am the proud owner of a Mori Seiki ZL-15 twin turret with tailstock lathe with a Fanuc 11 TT controller. Bought the machine and it was DROPPED in shipping. To make a long story short we finally got the hardware running.......and are profiling barrels but found out that the batteries had died at some point and lost the parameters and compensation tables. Someone appears to have loaded something generic from an 11 series Fanuc controller but we didn't realize none of the twin turret options were missing until too late.
After MULTIPLE service calls form Fanuc $$$$$ and having a friend who does laser alignment rebuild the compensation tables (More$$$$)we went from .020 misalignment on the Z axis to less than .0006 over the full range of z travel and the ability to pinch turn. Called fanuc to get the parameter list the machine shipped with ........and as it is serial number 2.....yes TWO, LOL.....all the documentation for the machine was lost in a fire several years back.
We pretty much have everything squared away to profile 16 inch barrels (DI45ACP AR15 conversion kits for you gun nuts).....but I am trying to access G52 and G53and G54 through 59 to simplify machining shorter barrels of various lengths. I have spent WAY more than I paid for the machine getting it running. Was hoping someone has a similar machine that could help me out with settings.....I think 9126.3 is the parameter for G52, G53, just not sure how to set it.
I hate to scrap it or part it out as it runs smooth as silk, holds tolerance beautifully and is allowing us to profile a barrel in a single setup in near record time. If anyone has any suggestions or a similar machine it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact me.
Thanks for reading
Rudy
After MULTIPLE service calls form Fanuc $$$$$ and having a friend who does laser alignment rebuild the compensation tables (More$$$$)we went from .020 misalignment on the Z axis to less than .0006 over the full range of z travel and the ability to pinch turn. Called fanuc to get the parameter list the machine shipped with ........and as it is serial number 2.....yes TWO, LOL.....all the documentation for the machine was lost in a fire several years back.
We pretty much have everything squared away to profile 16 inch barrels (DI45ACP AR15 conversion kits for you gun nuts).....but I am trying to access G52 and G53and G54 through 59 to simplify machining shorter barrels of various lengths. I have spent WAY more than I paid for the machine getting it running. Was hoping someone has a similar machine that could help me out with settings.....I think 9126.3 is the parameter for G52, G53, just not sure how to set it.
I hate to scrap it or part it out as it runs smooth as silk, holds tolerance beautifully and is allowing us to profile a barrel in a single setup in near record time. If anyone has any suggestions or a similar machine it would be greatly appreciated if you could contact me.
Thanks for reading
Rudy