I picked up a 1999 Masterwood Speedy 207 a while back with only 6 hours on it. Previous owner had bought it, and never figured out how to use it. I fired it up before the tear down and it ran perfectly. It’s a VERY solid machine, altogether weighs about 3/4 ton. Ball screw on X/Y. Envelope is about 32” x 60” x 3”.
It was built to be a CNC boring machine for use in cabinet manufacturing. The table is a vacuum pod-and-rail system for holding parts. The original machine head had no router spindle, only a boring block with a grooving saw and a horizontal boring spindle. No Z-axis other than a pneumatic actuator that hit a manually adjusted stop.
The control was manually programmed by the operator but could not accept g-code from external CAM software. I gutted all electronics from the machine except for the power supply and brushed DC servos and encoders.
I’ll try to compile as much info here as possible, please let me know what is missing. I’ll be adding more over the next few days, CNC12 report to follow shortly.
Drives: Machdrive BRC on X/Y, Clearpath SDSK planned for Z
Servo X/Y: Brushed DC (see photo)
Encoders: Hohner PRO1310/500 located on ball screw.
The current status of the build is that I have the X servo connected, trying to get motion. I can jog the X axis at the Acorn but not seeing any step/direction lights on the drive. Also the drive is not indicating input of A/B signal from encoder with manual turning of the servo.
