Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

Me too. Due covid restrictions, I had to take a punt on this one, and bought it sight unseen, from another country. No risk no fun
Mark

Did the same with the tailstock for my lathe and didn’t even pick it yet. Strange times.

Good Luck with it.

Patrick

I´m going to attempt to implement the gear shifting comp in near future.
I got mostly of my maho mh600e from ´89 running. But i have to change gears manually at the moment.
Anyone ever did a diy autmatic toolchanger ?

Good work. Please give feedback on the instructions for implementing the geabox comp on the 600E.
I don't know of anyone with an ATC on an E series Maho and LinuxCNC.
Mark

I thought that you had an automatic gear changer? I seem to recall watching the spindle do a little dance and shifters rotate on YouTube?

Hi Andy,
Onkelmat was asking if anyone had a tool changer, not gear changing. Yes, the LinuxCNC Comp is changing gears for me. THe little dance if the main spindle motor being twitched back and forth with 90VAC to ensure the gears mesh. My friend wrote the component to control the MAHO gearchange motors:
github.com/jin-eld/mh400e-linuxcnc/wiki/...Gearbox--Description
That is working nicely, but no ATC.
Mark