Milltronics Partner 4 (Manual Needed)

[bennettdan]

Hello
I have just found a Milltronics Partner 4 mill and I plan to retrofit it with a more modern control system but I can not find any Manuals on the machine.
I would like to have a parts manual and setup manual if anyone has one or knows where I might find one please let me know.
Thanks Dan

[Toolguy]

Call Milltronics. Maybe they can send you a PDF one.

[Jim Shaper]

Call Milltronics. All centurion controls use the same fundamentals. So if you see the Centurion 7 manual online, you can use that and not much will be different.

The folks at Milltronics are EXTREMELY helpful! I bought a 1991 Partner 1 last year and they bent over backwards helping me figure out why one of my motors wasn't behaving right. You want good service - they provide GREAT service!

Other than being a dinosaur, if you're not programming at the machine, there's really nothing upgrading the control will buy you (so long as it works). If you just want to use the iron and upgrade all the motors/drives/etc, then you'll have a big expenditure on the way. Even for being a relic, the conversational control is quite robust. I've never used it, but if I needed to, it would be perfectly acceptable.


I had intially thought I'd upgrade this as well, but the control works and the machine holds .001 all day long. Loading with floppies is getting old, but I haven't gotten around to making the null modem and networking it to the shop computer yet.