Today I acquired...........

[MattF]

Links are required, both of you

Bossy.

MIG Welder 135Amp: DEKO 220V Flux Core MIG/Lift TIG/Stick 3-in-1 Welding Machine IGBT Inverter Portable Kit with Welding Gun, Wire https://amzn.eu/d/b8usocW

 

[Kram]

Dpd delivered this quite unexpectedly this afternoon about 5pm, on a Sunday. Ordered early Thurs so I was expecting it Friday.

20m climbing rope for smaller trees when the 40m is far too long and the 10m too short. Its nice to not have a lot of spare rope on the ground.

The small cord hasnt got a purpose yet. The 5M rope will be chopped in half and spliced to make another cambium saver - a large and small ring spliced one on each end.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Some holiday reading.

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If you enjoy that, consider reading this.

It's a very interesting read, summarising the +20 years of research mostly into inequality problems, which they won a Nobel prize for.

The bit that's shocking is that their approach of "actually studying how things play out in the Real World™", is different enough that it was world leading economics in 2019.

 

[Seadog]

I'll look for a copy

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Something followed me home again...

What's the world coming to?

You can't even go to a closing down auction at a machine tool dealer without being stalked by irresistible bargains nowadays.

 

[Seadog]

4.75 delivered. Hardback, too.

 

[minimutly]

Took some stuff to the skip, and on the small electrical waste skip I found these…View attachment 471649View attachment 471650

3 mitisibishi plc, that look completely unused (completely clean and all the terminal screws are still tight, so they’ve never had anything in them) and a hmi which also looks new save for a few marks on the screen.

There was also a vfd in there, I couldn’t quite reach that but I’m kicking myself for not trying harder now!

I used to have the programming kit for these, sadly gave it away years ago. Might have the actual profram on an old laptop, but you need some adaptors for connecting to the processor.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Took some stuff to the skip, and on the small electrical waste skip I found these…View attachment 471649View attachment 471650

3 mitisibishi plc, that look completely unused (completely clean and all the terminal screws are still tight, so they’ve never had anything in them) and a hmi which also looks new save for a few marks on the screen.

There was also a vfd in there, I couldn’t quite reach that but I’m kicking myself for not trying harder now!

I have quite a few of those FX series PLC's as well as two different programming setups for them, pretty good stuff.

The FX-3U's that are the most modern and capable ones in the FX series (the new FX5's are based on the IQ-F platform, and have additional features previously reserved for the Q series) and with 48 I/O's will have been a pretty penny new.

I used to have the programming kit for these, sadly gave it away years ago. Might have the actual profram on an old laptop, but you need some adaptors for connecting to the processor.

You can get a relatively inexpensive knock off of the optoelectronically isolated programming cable online these days (and the official one has come down in price a lot too).

There's also some [unapproved] USB to RS232 programming cables so you don't need a proper serial port on your PC.

The older generations of the programming software are often for sale cheaply on eBay.

I think that there's also an early version of GXDeveloper which is available to download as "abandonware" (a legal grey area I won't get into), but I forget where I saw it.

 

[daleyd]

I have quite a few of those FX series PLC's as well as two different programming setups for them, pretty good stuff.

The FX-3U's that are the most modern and capable ones in the FX series (the new FX5's are based on the IQ-F platform, and have additional features previously reserved for the Q series) and with 48 I/O's will have been a pretty penny new.


You can get a relatively inexpensive knock off of the optoelectronically isolated programming cable online these days (and the official one has come down in price a lot too).

There's also some [unapproved] USB to RS232 programming cables so you don't need a proper serial port on your PC.

The older generations of the programming software are often for sale cheaply on eBay.

I think that there's also an early version of GXDeveloper which is available to download as "abandonware" (a legal grey area I won't get into), but I forget where I saw it.

I already gx software and the cables to go with my collection of other Mitsubishi gear I’ve got a collection of various fx, A series and Q - just need to see if I have the hmi terminal software (gx designer I think) as I’ve never used one of those particular HMI before. But I had the suite of software from my last place so it may be bundled.

Got them powered up this afternoon as I was fiddling with a 24v supply for another job (the plc are 240v supply but hmi is 24v).

Looks like it’s never even had a program loaded into it, it’s got an 8gb sd card fitted but it’s empty.

Plcs all power up fine, and on closer inspection today they have definitely never been used as all the terminal screws are still tight from the factory. Next step is to dig the cables out and the laptop with software on….

 

[daleyd]

I used to have the programming kit for these, sadly gave it away years ago. Might have the actual profram on an old laptop, but you need some adaptors for connecting to the processor.

Cheers, I should be ok as I used to do a fair bit with Mitsubishi in my previous job - the software and cables kind of left with me

 

[Mark 5]

This box arrived today, from @Seadog.




Also, the inevitable occured today. I know what I am, so no need to say.

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So that's what this mythical creature looks like, can't buy one from any LIDL store I've visited.

 

[zzr1200]

So that's what this mythical creature looks like, can't buy one from any LIDL store I've visited.

I think I spotted one in a local store near me, the "UK" () is a fairly large place, a more "local location" for you might help getting you pointed in the right direction.....

 

[nickk]

1/2” unf for my trailer overhaul,suspension clevis’ and tandem pivots. Two nice castings for some gate posts I’m making.