Hurco KMB-IS CNC update

Hello to you Mike in Switzerland… I have always wanted to come to your country and hike the Oberland....

And we normaly go hiking for a couple of weeks in Origon. Was planned in September. Sniff, we will not see our friends this year. No the best times.
Mike

@Mike_Eitel

Yes I agree with you, not the best times. I have had my parents in isolation since March as they both are recovering from cancer. I am on the other end of the farm from them and their link to the outside world.

I have not made it to Oregon yet, but want to go (Mt. Hood). I am on the opposite side of the country in completely flat land (state of Georgia). I have been to Washington the state above Oregon and have hiked Mt Rainier and Mt St. Helens. Mt Rainier is awesome when the weather is clear.
EDIT: Well not as awesome as your Swiss Alps..

Leith lives in the state of Colorado. He has some excellent National Parks close to his area. I have been to Colorado years ago, but want to go back for Rocky Mountain National Park. I am still on that trek to see as many National Parks as I can see. I've got some hard one's under my belt, but some are impossible for me like Gates of the Arctic (bush plane to get there).

Yes I hope that this virus mess is over soon. It has not been good for the world, and wish it had never happened. We were planning on going to Glacier National Park this month of August, but that was put on hold way back. We had been planning for over a year. Will be glad when the world is finally rid of it, and everyone can safely move around....

Robert

Leith,

Happen to see this on the rear of a Hurco BMC 20... which they are a later model than our time period (late 80's-early 90's). It had the dual screen Ultimax II control. Personally I think they took it off the previous machine and added it to this one... the Amphenol looks old and is missing one bolt.... Most likely to re-use the indexer from the previous machine. Plus this had a DB9 connector at a different location for DNC. I am sure it was a previous Hurco machine to re-use the Amphenol connector, as our Hyperdex indexer was wired for Monarch VMC's and it could be moved between our three VMC's, but not work with anything else we had (Cincinnati Milacron, Bridgeport, etc..) without re-wiring..

Leith

Hey here is a interesting wrench that I saw on Ebay with a Kwik 400 adapter. I was going to send you pic of one similar that me and my Dad made, but this is even simpler. Just have to weld something on the end for the hook part

Leith,

Me and my Dad built this years ago for our larger excavator. We needed to repack one of the large hydraulic cylinders and this was the quick and dirty spanner wrench we made. You can make the same concept for your kwik switch spindle to get by until finding a good one at a cheap price.

This one is pretty big as it is 5' long and has a 4-1/2" spanner on the end. The handle is 1" pipe and the spanner is nothing more than 4" pipe cut about 1-1/2" long for width and then we split the piece to what you see welded to the 1" handle. Then drilled a 3/8" hole, then cut off a 3/8" shoulder bolt to fit down in making the pin. You could weld the pin in... we had to put ours in after spanner was put in place is why it is removable.

Just a idea to get by....