The Return of the King

Last week my CNC broke down. A week ago today, in fact. They called the guy who does field service for it. He said he'd be in to take a look at it, and hopefully fix it up. He didn't show. Or Thursday, Friday, Monday or Tuesday. Finally he made it in today. Took him less than five minutes to get it going again. He had to put in a new processor board, and its very cool!!! Has more than ten times the memory of the old one. He had one that has close to 100 times the memory. The salesman came through and talked to him a little. He asked how much it was going to be for the new board, and the guy said he was going to have to look it up and figure it out and everything. A few minutes later he mentioned the one with gobs of memory, and when the salesman asked about that (obviously considering getting it while the guy was there) he was able to rattle the price for that one right off!!! I found that amusing.

The guy is a real cool guy, he explained a lot of things to us, why we were getting servo faults, possible other things that could lead to problems, and where certain reset relays were. One thing that I found interesting, though. The guy looked quite a bit like Stephen King!!! And, he did a brain transplant on my CNC...