Renishaw spindle probes???

cboggs · Post by **cboggs** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:47 pm

Spoke to Renishaw about a spindle probe, ..
they told me they don't make them anymore, .. only option
is the stand alone Cyclone at $44K, .. not an option for me.

I want to digitize in the spindle, .. so, .. anyone know the
part numbers or model numbers for the Renishaw probe & controller?

Now I'm going to use a Centroid M400 controller, they offer a spindle
digitizer, .. any thoughts or experience?

Thanks,

Curtis

Post by **SchmidtMotorWorks** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:21 pm

Check ebay,

"Renishaw probe" there were about 10 items there today, some looked good.

I have bought tons of tooling on ebay and have been very satisfied with most things.

ebay tip: always use esnipe.com to get what you want at the lowest price possible.

cboggs · Post by **cboggs** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:44 pm

Jon,

Yes I've seen them on Ebay, .. but don't know the proper probe
or controller I need, .. do you know????

Thanks

Curtis

Post by **SchmidtMotorWorks** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:31 pm

My Mori came with the control box and what looks like some light signal but the rest of the parts were missing. I have been meaning to figure it all out when I have time.

I knew a guy when I worked at HPD that was really into using them for everything like confirming set-ups and measuring after cuts etc. I will send him an email to see if he still works there and has any advice. I will be in Japan for the next 2 to 4 weeks so I might not always have web access (14 hour days, long train rides, fish and rice, etc.).

RGL · Post by **RGL** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:17 am

check your e-mail curtis, sent u some more info

Post by **SchmidtMotorWorks** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:55 pm

Greetings from Japan, I had some waiting to do this morning and found this. Maybe an inexpensive solution?

http://www.maxnc.com/page6.html

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 7:03 am

In my CNC machine I use a Marposs probing system seems to work fine for me and is very accurate as we have a progam for checking deck heights, Bore locations in X and Y and cylinder size and on some of the 010 blocks we have to bore them to the preprobed location as the cylinders are off to much to blue print bore. It takes about 5 minutes to run this program.

Here is a pic of the Probe we use

Post by **SchmidtMotorWorks** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:18 pm

Thats a cool setup, do you find that the bell housing face of the block is out of square with the crankshaft bores? If so I guess you must have some way to compensate.

CNC BLOCKS · Post by **CNC BLOCKS** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:54 pm

SchmidtMotorWorks wrote:Thats a cool setup, do you find that the bell housing face of the block is out of square with the crankshaft bores? If so I guess you must have some way to compensate.

So far there does not seem to be any issues in that area.

We installed a block in the CNC machine that we fully machined 5 years ago as it has been setting and we had to bush the lifter bores back to standard and the block probed out with in .0012 of what it was done the first time and the decks was with in .0008