BOXFORD 125 TLC Tool Changer Setup

with the carusell component y0u woudt be better up
as it has all inside what you need as the image post 1 shows

Hi mate! No I haven’t! If you help me to make it work, I’ll give you my first born child!
Hope the process is simple, coz I’m....

Just reviewed those changes to the carousel and this would definitely be the way forward for @garulus to get this working. I'm tempted to update my configuration but it's working at the moment and I am just about to put the lathe up for sale so I might just leave it alone.

@garulus - I can't remember exactly how I solved it myself but I do have the configuration saved so can take a look to remind myself and either help you set it up the same way as me or using the changes to the carousel code that andypugh made.

Unfortunately I’m not programmer, so it will not help me. But if I may ask...would you be so kind and post your config files(folder)?

The BOXFORD 125 TLC Tool Changer

1) Does not have any feed back what so ever as to the tool selected or an index position
2) Is driven by a stepper motor
3) Is mechanically similar to the orac as in it moves in one direction and then the other to lock against a pawl

- Has anyone set one of these up with the current version of carousel.comp - is this the correct component to be using?

- As it does not know which tool is selected I assume you would change the tool till you were at a predefined tool and then "home" it at this point - how have others addressed this problem ?

I am sure that it does not have any feed back - which is I agree not the ideal way to go

The 125 and 160 have the same turret (I believe)

www.boxford-software.com/spares/160Turret3.html
www.boxford-software.com/spares/160menu.html

I am about to do one of these, so will be watching with interest.