Video that predates me what about you?

[RetiredRoger]

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[Incogneeto]

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Not on the Mill But the Lathe.

Paper Tape and a Notepad to touch off each tool.

Mori seiki 1500 , 2500

what was it? X 14.7 and subtract touch off each tool.

Minus .05 on Z touch off.

Always saved the notebook page just in case.

Entered Co-ordinates and Ran tape.

Cycle Start!!!

Scariest moment in the World.!!!

Second Part, Relaxed Asshole.

Mic - Check!!

[Smit]

In 1980 I was hired in to a machine shop that had a small Edlund mill. It was old when I got there.

Programs were loaded with a paper tape and it had an ATC. Dogs were set to control the depths and retracts. It would blow right through those dogs with alarming frequency so you never wandered away while it was running! 

It was probably one heck of a machine in its day. Shortly after that the company started buying more modern machines. Monarch/Cortland VMCs and Cincinatti Milacron lathes. They still used paper tape but no more dogs. Life got so much easier.

[Incogneeto]

https://www.merrittpreferred.com/cnc-turning/

If you look at the size of the Lathes. Similar.

We had a Big Tape reader . But this is in the same Bay I worked in.

Probably 30 years earlier.

36" four Jaw Chuck.

see the Deep Bore??

We made the F-16 landing gear.

I worked for A.P. Merritt Jr.

The website does not do justice to the fact that this was a corrugated covered shop.

A.P.'s Brother was a congressional member , Hence the Gov contracts.

There was No Heat and No A.C. in the entire shop.

110 in the summer and 45 in the winter.

[Incogneeto]

In 1980 I was hired in to a machine shop that has a small Edlund mill. It was old when I got there.

Programs were loaded with a paper tape and it had an ATC. Dogs were set to control the depths and retracts. It would blow right through those dogs with alarming frequency so you never wandered away while it was running! 

It was probably one heck of a machine in its day. Shortly after that the company started buying more modern machines. Monarch/Cortland VMCs and Cincinatti Milacron lathes. They still used paper tape but no more dogs. Life got so much easier.

LOL!! Never Trust a Dog!!

We made the floor Plates for Huey's one Day a senior set it to run and went to get a Haircut. (He Snuck Out)

There were 10 guys standing at the Machine watching it Eat .

He had a Bad day.

[Incogneeto]

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I Know you are going with the Tape stuff.

But we actually worked on stuff(machines)

Pre 1938.

Everything on the Machine was German.LOL!!

[RetiredRoger]

I Know you are going with the Tape stuff.

I have run a paper tape machine before.  They had a knee mill in my college Machine Shop class. (1977) We programed by handwriting up our code on set-up sheets, after we would punch the tape, and run.  I think I might still have my set-up sheets for a project I never finished.  My brother was a big fan of Shelby Mustangs.  And I was making glass coasters from aluminum that had the Carol Shelby Logo in the center, and engraving that said SHELBY GT-350

The instructor later got a Cad Cam program that I got better then him at using.  

[gcode]

My first experience with NC was a Burgmiester drilling machine,
It had a paper tape controlled XY table and a 6 spindle indexing head to hold the tools.
The NC file was 100% incremental and the tape had to start and end at the same place.
If your math was a couple of thou off, your machine zero and your parts would drift by the error amount.

The head was controlled by electromechanical switches and cycled one time for every XY move.
It was an old machine and tended to malfunction on hot days, dropping the head whenever it felt like it
and ignoring the depth stop switches.    Good Times !!!!

[Newbeeee™]

Mine was 1984 - Emco Compact 5....I was on a toolmaking apprenticeship and this CNC Thing, bored the shite outta me. Very longwinded and painful just to turn a diameter....
So I finished my apprenticeship and went into the Drawing office route.
Years later....my nightmare returned....

[Jeff]

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I've seen that one before, it's very interesting to watch.
There is a full clip on YouTube somewhere. And many others like it.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

I have 3 rolls of orange punched-tape in my desk here. Labelled 245, 246 and "PROG OF EXPLAIN HANDY-MAN 1989.10.25 MATSUURA MACHINARY CO.". I keep them around as a anemoia laden touchstone, and to think about what I may look back on myself in 40 years. I bet it will be like Back to the Future: "You have to use your HANDS?"

I think they were for the red era Mats VMC's, those tapes? We have 3 green ones here that may have used tape, but are all on the network now. Workhorses, the lot of them, still 50% of my vertical spindles.

[RobertELee]

Anyone have a punch post for a 1984 Amada VMC they'd be willing to share? 

[Del.]

My first wire Edm was a Japax. Manually NC code with tape reader. I would trace the program with paper and pen to verify shape.

[Newbeeee™]

a anemoia laden touchstone

Not gunna lie, had to gooogle that!
Chapeau!

[DUM1]

when I went to school for CNC back in 1990 the only machine they had was a Bridgeport Knee mill with a ticker tape control. We had to hand write the code firstthen punch the tape , no mistakes. I was very disappointed but did manage to pass and got a CNC job a few years later after showing them what I could do on a manual lathe and manual mill.
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