Hi All, I use a PC 50 lathe which turns a slight taper (wider by 0.0018" at 2" out from the headstock). Is there a way to adjust the headstock? I took the cover off and the prismatic shape of the fron

I did trace the inputs back to the differential line receiver and built a simple line driver using two 7404 gates and everything works fine. I've also traced out pin 16 on the flat ribbon and found th

I'm retrofitting a PCTurn 50 and would like to save the Berger steppers. I have studied the diagram for the control board (Y4A 018 000) and am stuck understanding at least three things about the contr

I think what's being described, here, is the EMCO VMC-100 which is basically an F1 with a tool turret. I just entered "Emco VMC-100" into Google and immediately got a picture . . . Mark ---- Keith Mc

Take a look at this Ebay posting for a key: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120769255166&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 Mark

All, The higher voltage is for rapid traverse; the lower is for feed and hold. That's all documented in the manual(s) that are online in the Yahoo C5 CNC group files section. Mark

Keith, Try Marlin P. Jones (www.mpja.com). They have a bunch of small gear motors. I bought two really nice 24v. Swiss gearmotors from them (~$30.00 for two) and used one to replace the turret motor i

Dan, I don't know about the coolant issue but I may be of help with the ballscrews (I have an F1 but it should use the same screws as the C5). I believe that there are 53 balls but you should check me

Anthoni, You can look in the Yahoo group files section but I think the only diagram is for the power supply. We have interconnect diagrams for the various boards but, other than the power supply, no d

Anthoni, You can look in the Yahoo group files section but I think the only diagram is for the power supply. We have interconnect diagrams for the various boards but, other than the power supply, no d

There are two (main) problems with using posts from cam software. First is that the output must be formatted with each field in specific columns and most cam software doesn't do that. There's a .pdf i

There are two (main) problems with using posts from cam software. First is that the output must be formatted with each field in specific columns and most cam software doesn't do that. There's a .pdf i

Eric, Just import the BobCAD output into Excel, format it there and export it again. I'm doing that with VisualMill output and it works just fine. Mark ---- Emco_cnc_users@... wrote:

I don't know if it helps but I've got some Excel VB code that I use to convert the output from VisualMill to fixed format. It's not really that MFI requires fixed format; it's that the Emco machines r

Eric, The one combination I don't see in your post is 300,7,N,2. That's what I use and I get 100% error free transfers. That may be in a manual somewhere but I don't remember how I got to that point.

Eric, I run an F1 mill which is the same control and I don't see any characters on startup - I think it's just noise. My machine wants to see 7 data bits, no parity and 2 stop bits. The baud rate will

Eric, I run an F1 mill which is the same control and I don't see any characters on startup - I think it's just noise. My machine wants to see 7 data bits, no parity and 2 stop bits. The baud rate will

Hi, Anyone out there got one of the original longer (x or z axis) F1 CNC ball screws left over from a retrofit? I'd like to buy one with the timing belt pulley intact (I would like to have the nut, to

Folks, First, sorry this is a little late in the discussion - Firefox and Yahoo were not cooperating and I couldn't post this for a while. I'm using two different usb to serial converters under XP and

You can go to "settings" - "com ports" and then enable the comm ports in MFI. You will then get a menu for the parameters. From what I see below, the settings are off a little - probably parity, stop