Originally Posted by
g-codeguy
Chris, I sent you a PM yesterday. First time I had been on this site in awhile. I've never programmed a Quest 6/42, but have been programming Hardinges for 25 years starting with CHNCs. We no longer have any CHNC lathes, but do have a Conquest 51, a Conquest 42 and several Conquest T42s. Two have hydraulic subspindles, 3 have programmable subspindes, 2 have C-axis (that seldom get used), and one has live tooling using B-axis which only gets used for cross drilling although I have milled keyways with it.
We also have 3 Daewoo 200MS lathes plus a Nakamura Tome TW-20 with C-axis that do see a bit more C-axis work. Unfortunately we don't get any fancy work for C-axis, but I should be able to help you with basic stuff.