Re: Newbie with Terco CNC trainer lathe

A friend has the Terco Mill, came without the controls but does have
the original 200oz motors. He bought BobCad and the ModelMaster
system, hooked it up and it works great.
I would like to find a Terco mill myself, anybody seen one laying
about. It's probably the nicest little vertical mill made for it's
size. Rich Dean

Jesse Hill wrote:

>
> From: Jesse Hill <usjess@...>
>
> Hello the list!,
>
> I've just signed up, and am quite
> interested in HSM type DRO and CNC.
>
> I bought some equipment a while back
> which included a Colne Terco CNC trainer
> lathe and mill. With these machines
> came some documentation and a couple of
> old style programming stations that seem
> to need (among other things) an external
> hard drive somewhere (which I don't
> have).
>
> Also, came with a separate controller
> station for the mill. None of this
> equipment looks to have seen much use.
> The plan would be to learn a little
> (hopefully a lot) about CNC, and get
> these running as a side effect.
>
> I haven't even had time to look at the
> paper that came with them, but after I
> get the chance, I should have a question
> or two for the list.
>
> I hope to learn enough for starters to
> figure out whether it would be best to
> try to work with what I have for this
> system and find / fabricate what I'm
> missing, or if I should view these as
> generic machines and I'll need to buy
> fresh software / controls -- maybe
> something along the lines of MAXNC? The
> stepper motors on the mill look like
> quality and fairly beefy for the
> application (to the uneducated on cnc
> eye).
>
> My question for right now is:
>
> Does anyone here have this equipment,
> or does anyone remember training on it?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Jesse Hill
> usjess
>
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