the emco is a nice little lathe, however it does have some quarks with it. I would suggest for getting into it here might not be the best place, but head over to these yahoo groups.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/grou...compact5users/
you have to sub to read the messages in it but it is definately worth it. I'll try and help out as much as i can with it, but i'm by no means an expert