Karl Townsend wrote:

"The Kid" just bought a mill.
http://www.k-bid.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?klosteria330/76

The control is dead. Anyone know if this control is worth repairing?
Or has my son just bought me a winter project?

Karl
I'm not sure what vintage it is, but the serial # looks
like a date, as in 1985. If so, I REALLY would advise
against repair if it is more than a blown fuse or loose
connector. If you replace a board, then another board
will die within months. I had a slightly older control
that I hacked onto a manual Bridgeport, and had to do
board-level repairs 3 times in 9 months. I was overjoyed
to become one of the first outside users of EMC back in
1998.

Since this is a servo machine, I would recommend using
LinuxCNC (the new name of EMC2) which is most at home
driving servos.

You may be able to save the servo amps, depending on
the make, some of them are quite reliable.

Jon