Automatic band saw marvel v10a

 

I recently had a marvel v10a automatic band saw fall into my lap. It's in pretty rough shape and I am considering doing a restoration on it. I was told the electronics are in potentially broken condition. I think it would be a neat project to retrofit the control, and would be useful to be able to upload cut lists to the machine via USB to further automate the cutting process and have a hmi. The machine does not currently auto miter and only allows 1 direction mitering. I think I can modify it to miter both directions, but need to further investigate if i can I will try to add auto miter. This thread will serve as a build log if I make progress on the project. Has anyone seen any examples of retrofits being done on band saws? What would be the best way to go about taking on this project. 

Wouldn't be to bad to use linuxcnc. I'm in the process of building an automated saw with a magazine to load bars.

How does the bar feed work?
How does the saw feed work?

That's would determine my approach

This will be the second machine in the shop powered by linux. I'm getting close to having the 10x15 plasma table I've been building completed. Got all the motors/mechanical finished. The way the bar feeder works is it has 2 hydraulic clamps and one clamp is connected to a ball screw. Threw cycles of clamping unclamping and movement of the screw it carts the material forward.
Still unsure if I'm going to move forward with this saw project or not the saw is in pretty rough shape I'm bringing it home today or tommorow but I most likely will. I also bought a cnc lathe the same day a hyundai hit 20m for $1000 it's in nice shape but haven't been under power for 4 years and had some connection issues when we put it under power. So I definitely have my hands full here with projects. What do you guys think about gui how should I go about making one?

Do you have any photos of your project or a build thread?