emco compact 5

[h_2_o]

I picked one of these up recently and i was curious if anyone had any input about this machine. also what software would you use to dnc over to it?

thanks

[itsme]

Hi there,

Seeing that you're talking about software, I'm assuming it's the CNC version. I have the manual version and although there aren't too many similarities, I can tell you that it's a great little machine and has been very good. The quality is excellent!

Regards
Warren

[ESjaavik]

There is a Yahoo group for Emco5 users. You should join it.
Send me an email, I have programs that may be of use to you.
The mechanics is superb (for that size)! The controller is outdated, but start out with
that. Modernizing the controller is possible. Myself I will wait a while to see
if EMC2 gets the lacking support for lathes. TurboCNC may be an option too.
If the controller is the last version it is slow but capable to do most hobby work.

[h_2_o]

update on this little thing. i got it up and running. everything seems to be working ok on it. i got it connected to a pc and am using nclinkfree to transfer the files over to it. the only real problem i am having so far is that the format of the file being sent over is very unique. I'm working on a spreadsheet to format the gcode correctly into a file to send it over.

esjaavik: i'm curious what software do you have? is it the stuff that came with it that you can dl from the emco yahoo group or is it something else?

as for it's capabilities so far i'm happy with it and hopefully it will be a good machine for a long time to come.