On 26 Sep 2008 04:41:16 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:
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There was also a "F1" CNC mill with the same vintage of
controller CPU as the Compact-5/CNC lathe.
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see
http://www.lathes.co.uk/emco/index.html

Emcos are nice machines but the smaller manual machines are long
out of production and the parts/accessories are not cheap. one US
source is http://www.blueridgemachinery.com/

One of Blueridge's product lines is Shop Fox, which seems to be
very close to the Emco design.
http://www.blueridgemachinery.com/ma...athe_mill.html


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).