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/\ Out of curiousity what is that machine? PC Mill 1XX?

Amen, whether the stimulus works or not, we still have to pay it back. Dumbest decision apart from de-militarizing our country, that the President has made thus far. Much more dumb decisions to...

If learned lots in the past few months from tinkering with it, being on cnc zone, and talking with the US headquarters reps. If anyone has questions feel free to send em my way, I know these are...

Ran one of these in school for a few years, only issue we had was with it not homing properly, we reinstalled the software via the floppy disks and it cured our probs. Do you have the floppy install...

Thanks guys, removing the first % sign fixed the prob, I forgot to try placing it before the program number to see if that would cause it as well. Appreciate the help!

Error is: 9 N 0 SYNTAX ERROR (i have changed H0 to H3, what does this do?)

Bear with me, I am very new to using industrial machines so im sure my error is very obvious.

Pasted below is the beginning part of my ~2000 line program, upon trying to run this in single block...

21M not 21iM, its a PC based system running a Fanuc 21 "overlay" so the program has been transfered over my LAN to the computer C drive

Just got my EMCO up and running, it is operating Fanuc 21M.

I have named my program 0001 and have followed the directions in the manual which concur with the steps listed hereHERE

I get error...

Hi Freeman, i own a pc mill 125 running Fanuc 21 (easy to understand, though I havent used Seimens controls). I just recently set it all up and it is now running successfully. Calling EMCO has been...

My Emco PCMill 125's power requirements as stated in my manual are:
3/N/PE ~230/400 or 3/PE ~230

I was under the assumption that it needed ~230v 3phase (~230v when measured line to line between...

agreed! speedy metals is fast and the cheapest ive found, so far i have yet to get a sloppy cut from them. onlinemetals.com is the same type of company but a little pricier, alot longer shipping and...

Yeah, it wasnt a post hes created, just the suggestions he has made in the past in regards to specific parts to be bought for cnc conversions. They are always detailed, provide links, prices, etc....

Great! KEEP reading the posts on this forum, though you may not find the answer to your first question, you will learn sooo much along the way.

The X3 is a great machine, loads of people have it,...

I gotta keep reminding myself that everytime I get frustrated and something takes more than a day to figure out, ill learn alot of stuff along the way :)

Thanks BIG TIME for the help, I will be...

First time kVA is mentioned in the manual it is 28kVA, next 2 times (found further in the manual) are 2,8 kVA. Ill assume the , is representing a . in this case. If this is true, ill bank on that...

Just called TemCo, a company who sells phase converters. They too are confused by what my manual says, please can anyone help?

My machine takes 1 input of 3Phase power at 230V

It requires a 20...

Havent run the machine yet so I am not sure if it pauses the spindle to change the tools or not. All 10 tools remain in the turret, and the spindle simple seats on top of one and spins, no removing...

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there isnt one, I said I wished there were. Im currently trying to find what types of toolholders my Emco has > http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86415

lunchtime bump

move your thread to the benchtop machines category, you will get tons more responses there

Im running 4 of them, off a keling 20A 75 or 78V (not sure) power supply. Running them on a rack and pinion router were 1 turn of the motor gets me about 3 inches so my rapids are retarded fast -...

Please tell me they are not a proprietary product. :P

I have 4 of them, all with the same "shank", this one holds a 3/8 shank bit with set screws, another holds a 1/4", 1 holds a shell mill and...

I received an Emco PC Mill 125 that needed to be broken down into pieces to fit in my basement. To "break" the mill up into 3 pieces I need to chop the 146 wires, and splice in connectors as...

Very nice. Wish CNC Zone had an Emco thread as I have a PC Mill 125

Very cool, thanks for sharing!