New Toy

Peter A Forbes

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Nov 16, 2004, 6:36:07 PM11/16/04

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Picked up the Newing-Hall NC engraver today from Worthing. It's a lot heavier
than the photo implied, and almost as solid as the Adcock & Shipley 1ES that we
have, although not as heavy.

It's going under cover up the farm until I get some space cleared and machinery
moved (sound familiar Tim? ) but I have the programming computer and the NC
control cabinet off, so can have a play.

The control codes are not standard, they are as created by Newing-Hall, and the
software is proprietary. I have the machine manual, plus a digitising tablet
that would make a damm good table top! it is nearly 3ft square...

Hope to play with the composing unit on the weekend.

Peter

Prepair Ltd

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Nov 18, 2004, 12:57:19 PM11/18/04

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Have had the composer unit running, had to change the cooling fan as
the bearings were well shot, but it all powers up OK and the ROM and
system checks that were provided all show OK.

We have a manual....

One thing I have managed to sort out today (thanks to John S and
Andrew Mawson) is that the damaged tape drive was also used on Denford
Triac and Orac machines, albeit in possibly two formats, Micro and
Mini-cassette (Japanese and Philips versions) neither of which fit the
other!

Andrew gave me some contact details for a chap up north, and I have
put an advert on Chris Heapy's excellent site (well done, Chris!) for
a replacement tape deck.

At present, we can use the existing deck on the composer and transfer
it to the control console and transfer stuff that way, or we can use
RS-232 cabling for certain items, but not all. There is some
limitation on what you can transfer across by cable for some reason.

So, if anyone has a Denford tape deck that they would like to exchange
for a reasonably substatial amount of folding stuff (no beer tokens
here!) please let me know.

The machinery looks to be in excellent nick, and was serviced annually
by the makers up until the time it was taken out of use.

Peter
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Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK
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Peter A Forbes

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Nov 18, 2004, 3:52:10 PM11/18/04

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:57:19 +0000, Prepair Ltd <pre...@easynet.co.uk> wrote:

Pictures of the old cassette units are at:

http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Misc/Dsc01465.jpg
through to
http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Misc/Dsc01469.jpg

For less than 'full-strength' jpeg's, put 'Red' after the file name:

for example:
http://www.oldengine.org/members/diesel/Misc/Dsc1469Red.jpg

Peter

Mark Rand

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Nov 19, 2004, 6:30:32 PM11/19/04

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Looks like a little bit of wear on the head under that rust :-)

Mark Rand
RTFM

Peter A Forbes

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Nov 20, 2004, 3:08:37 AM11/20/04

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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:30:32 +0000, Mark Rand <ra...@internettie.co.uk> wrote:

>Looks like a little bit of wear on the head under that rust :-)
>
>Mark Rand
>RTFM

I don't think it's rust, it looks more like the tape oxide that has got into the
worn surface.

Peter

Dave

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Nov 20, 2004, 4:44:56 AM11/20/04

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As far as I am aware, most tapes are ferric (or ferrous) oxide. Isn't rust
the same? I always thought it was.

Regards,
Dave.
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