Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

Hi,

FYI:
I posted some new pics yesterday:
www.cncecke.de/forum/showthread.php?1026...%FCr-Maho-400E/page2

I will replace the 3.500 mm balls with either the 3.506mm or 3.510mm I ordered.
As the machine seems to be mechanically still perfect, despite the cracked ball,
I suspect an electrical Problem that has caused the 0.3mm play in X.
I will clean the glass-scale next.

Cheers

Thanks for posting links to pictures Hanmon.

But please consider that cncecke don't allow unregistered users to watch anything. And if you don't understand German it's kind of difficult to register..... I which that cncecke would act like most other machinist forums allowing guests to watch the content, but are not allowed to post.

To remind you of the implications of this; I have ATC on my mill. And this have been holding me back for years. I finally found a similar machine where someone had made it work, although it was a guy in the Check Republic. And after a lot of searching I also found a thread in a check forum WITH POSTED CONFIG! Yay! And a video on Youtube showing it (it was actually this I found first).

That was the turning point for me, and was fundamental to me deciding to keep working on my mill again! Now I know it’s possible, and I have seen the tools that will help me do it.
And this was all thanks to this forum being open for guests! If I would have to register to be allowed to watch his posts it would have been impossible.

It's not possible to register on a site like cncecke with google translate!
Even now that I have registered on cncecke (which was very difficult!) it's impossible to use google translate on it! When I try to translate it (the page I can load after logging inn!) I just get a message saying it's not accessible.... So this page have to be copy and pasted and translated offline or something if I’m to read it!
It's possible cncecke have had problems of some sort that made them come to the conclusion they need to protect themselves. But as it is now that forum is discriminating against non-German speaking users.

So I hope you can please be considerate of most of us in here that don't read German well and post pictures here or somewhere that don't actively demand you are able to read and communicate in German.

Sorry to be so harsh, but as previously stated I find it important for forums like this to be tolerant and inclusive. Details found in these forums are of high importance and highly helpful. And I'm really disappointed by this. Actively preventing users to use google translate is the same as actively discriminating against non-German speaking people.

Hi,

"no worries mate", I don't take your criticism personally
I just didn't know that the access is restricted in "cncecke" as I'm permanently logged in there.

A short explanation:
The screw came of a little bit too easy with no pre-tension.
The metal flakes seem to be of a cracked 3.5mm (measured 3.495) ball.
I ordered 3.506mm and 3.510mm hardened steel balls from "kugel-winnie"

Here they are:







Cleaned the table yesterday and will clean the glass-scale today.

Cheers

Wonder where that chrome came from? I hope it is not damage to the nut ball races.

Glemi.. that was a very thoughtful rant Good point that the firewall kills the chance of using Goolge translate. Do you mind if I pass some of your message along to the Moderator of CNCecke?
Mark

Mark,

If it's my rant about cncecke you are referring to please use it to inform them what their policy does to us that isn't fluid in German.

I know there is a huge DIY CNC-building scene in Germany, so I'm not at all surprised that there is a lot happening in German language.
The downside is when forums are in effect preventing users like me from looking (I have no intention of posting, I have tried to post in English in other language forums previously and being flamed like **** for doing so, so I'm NOT sticking my neck out again, even if I do have the solution to a question asked......).

But it this case it's the "only members are allowed to watch any content" part of the policy that is preventing google translate from working. Google translate needs for forums to be publicly open for read access to work.
It's not the firewall that is preventing it, it's the requirement of having membership to access content.

I can think of many kinds of forums that want to keep content to only their registered users. But a forum for DIY building CNC-machines don't require that kind of policy in my view.
Or at least it will have clear negative impact, one of them being it's totally unavailable to non-German speaking guests like me......
And I don't think that is the purpose here.....

Well, I've never learned German and only know a bit from perusing tool catalogues, ebay, and some travelling but I managed to register on cncecke.de without much trouble.

Can't say I actually read anything there though, I regsitered to get Mark's linux retrofit manual So I never tried to google translate that site.

I generally know the names of things I'd like to buy or have, which, usually, I can't afford and/or justify the price of Such as prufdorn, rundtisch, hilma maschinenschraubstock, tuschierplatte, etc.

Also, thanks a lot for the pictures Hanno!