Brother Speedio Training RX450 with Videos
Brother Speedio Training, I have always loved brother machines, the first ones I worked on were in the 90’s and they brought a whole new meaning to the expression “shit off a stick”.
I think we coined a new phrase “shit off a greasy stick”
I was at Josiah Parkes and Sons, a famous lock maker in England.
My task was to program a macro for cutting keys.
True Story
The foreman came around and asked me how long it would be before they could cut the awaiting keys. The keys had special numbers so that no one could tell where they were going. These were high security and often for prisons and generally pretty secure places.
The foreman came back and said he’d told his boss who had in turn contacted the customer. He said “do you want to be the one to tell Buckingham Palace they have to wait for their keys”.
Anyway needless to say we had to get a move on if we were to keep our heads still attached to our necks.
This machine was pretty small I don’t remember the model number anyway fuckin quick it was.
Speedio Gonzales
Recently I got to work on a two year old circa 2023 and it was fuckin awesome. Speedy Gonzales was a cartoon character and also it’s a title of a Pat Boone song
You should checkout this song boy we had some fun in the 60’s (not that I’m that old). Pat Boone not to be confused with Pat Boner the porn star.
Everything about this machine is great and they say in life it’s the simple things that count and here is one of em.
The Door Stops It
Yes open the door while it’s running and it stops. “So fuckin what” you say. Well if you shut it again, all you do is press cycle start and it just carries on. The guys I was training loved it and it is amazing.
Try that on your Fanuc and your in for an almighty bang. So simple but wow it’s great. But why the fuck don’t all CNC Machines do this?
Brother Speedio TrainingMenu Buttons
It has these buttons
You can set any screen to a shortcut button. When you press 1 or 2 it give you a list of your shortcuts and when you input the number it jumps straight to that screen. Really good feature well worth setting up.
It has a random tool changer but unlike a lot of machines it clearly says on the screen exactly where each tool is. So when you go to the tool conveyor it’s easy to know what is what. There is a simple to use table that designates each tool to a pocket. It has built in logic so you can’t assign a tool to an already used pocket. If you input 0 as the tool number it will display CAP meaning the pocket is empty.
Brother Speedio Training Magazine Rotation
There is a tool chain round the back of the machine and you can index this with these buttons
Only one step at a time and all other doors need to be closed.
Their is a tool to extract the tools but you can quite easily pull them out by hand. It is possible to miss load them so be sure they are fully seated in their relevant pocket.
