Power Drawbar Build for PM-728VT

[IamNotImportant]

I like this guy's set up..

 

[koenbro]

I am using the Tormach TTS tooling system so rotation is neither necessary nor beneficial. All I need is push down and pull up — which is why I went with the combination of Belleville washers and a pneumatic cylinder.

Nonetheless I am interested in your solution.


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[feral_cat]

I like this guy's set up..

That video works. That's the same impact gun I got. Notice, it is handheld and has a forward and reverse paddle. You can easily hold it up there with one hand. I like the handle he made.

So, the way I look at it is this: I can grab the gun, sitting on a peg by the machine, do it myself and it probably takes maybe 3 seconds longer. I use this machine not a lot, so maybe 20 tool changes per week. Over 10 years of use, that adds up to 8 hours of total additional time. How many hours would it take me to make something to hold it and automatically engage/disengage and actuate the forward and reverse. Probably half a week, so the payback is not there. I'll keep doing it via the handheld method.