I was wrong, apologies, I've just fired up the PC, it's Win98 (all XP reference were erroneous). Now powering up the PCT55 to see if it's fixed, hoping not to see any smoke.

Arjan, Thank you for highlighting that the WinNC needs Win98. I'm pretty sure that the PC for the PCT55 is running XP and WinCAM, so that set-up is newer than the available WinNC installation file

As said. Winxp will not work. You need windows 98 Op za 25 jul. 2020 00:41 schreef tim.gowing via groups.io <tim.gowing@...>:

Hi J G, I found a melted/burnt Tantalum capacitor on the small sub-board of the AC95 motion controller. An electrical engineer colleague swapped out the burnt cap plus two similar caps and tested the

I have the mill 55 now for a few years. Like the machine and the good build. The ball screws are small and you notice that when doing deep shoulder cuts in aluminum. It vibrates like hell. Doing small

I have an F1P, Vmc100 and an F1 that's running on Welmill , my F1P uses 110 voltage and the VMC100 on 220 single phase so they were available in single phase as well here in the states. The F1P and

Hi, Thanks all for helping out, seems to be a great community around these machines! If anybody can point me to documentation that would be great. Especially size and weight. For my other manual Emco

I have the VMC-100 and I think it is similar when it comes to rigidity? When cutting 1075 steel for example my limit at 3 mm DOC at 2000 rpm on a 10mm 4 flute mill is 1.5 mm engagement and a cutting

All of these machines had ballscrews from the factory. The F1P had more powerful steppers & spindle motors. The controller was more Industrial and ran on 3 phase power vs. the standard household 110

Hi David, Thanks for the thorough answer. Yes I believe this to be a complete functional system including computer and a control console. I have not had a chance to check it out yet in person and

Anders: First things first. The Mill needs to have the RS422 interface card in the PC. Then you need the MSD disk with the factory parameter settings & WinNC software, all of these need to be

Hi, I’m thinking about bidding on a PC Mill 55 which seems to be in original working order. I have a hard time finding out what to expect out of the machine. Is it possible to do meaningful

Hi All, I recently bought a Mk4 compact 5 cnc lathe which is fitted with a 3.5 inch floppy drive instead of the usual tape drive. Unfortunately the floppy does not work. All the manuals that came with

Not sure what the noise is, but there seems to be a surge/pulse that matches the speed of the axis. My first guess is it is a hardware issue. This thing hasn't been moved or lubricated in at least a

Hello I am using MFI to program the Emco F1 milling machine. I would be interested to know if there is any MFI compliant post processor. On the other hand, has anyone used the EMCObasic CAD /

No problem - glad it is fixed. I forgot about the trimpot :-( What is the "pulse" issue ?

I had a similar problem and posted the solution here: https://groups.io/g/Emco-CNC-Users/message/7272

I got it sorted! This 10K pot was the problem. I didn't notice it until I pulled the board out. It is in series with the main pot and is used to calibrate the actual feed speed to match the dial on

Not for the compact 5, but I can take code from the LinuxCNC post processor and hand edit it to work on Fanuc 0. It's slow going and tedious but perfectly usable with some time.

Yes, its only the user variable jog rate between 'single step' and 'rapid' that uses the pot/pulse circuit. Otherwise the velocity and acceleration is handled by the CPU. Seems an odd fault to occur