Re: Taig CNC mill

Sven,

Your comments are certainly on point for this list! I have read the
Enco catalog, and I saw some useful stuff. I agree that there is "Asian
scrap" out there! Somebody must want it.

Your lathe sounds great! I was looking at the EMCO because I liked the
5" Sears/EMCO compact 5 I bought (actually my wife!) 17+ years ago!

So Prazi or EMCO is my current thinking!

Alan KM6VV


"Sven Peter, TAD S.A." wrote:

>
> Hello Alan
> Off context: (With the Enco catalogue there are some cheap and
> reasonable things
> (3 inch vice excellent = 86$) but frequently they sent us before (6-4
> years ago)
> not the complete order and a lot of their things are taiwanese scrap.
> (combination sheet metal bender twists with 1/16" aluminium sheets.
> We went to MSC => Good service)
>
> Präzi you find in many catalogues but what I have seen recently in
> en exhibition room back in old Germany was some other brand. (sloppy)
>
> A friend back there had a lathe we put Christmas (1987) on the kitchen
> table
> and we turned bushings for his old-timer sidecar. If I remember right
> it was a Präzi and worked quite fine. But it wasn't comfortable for
> threads.
> The reason might be that I never came clear with lathes with electrical
> stop.
> I love mechanical forward backward clutches like in Graziano or
> Heidenreich und Harbek.
>
> Including for two years now I look for a small bench lathe with
> nitrated bed ways
> and full metric and inch gearbox. It must be accurate and rigid for
> metal shop use.
> Dimensions lets say 6" (150 mm) chuck, and 24" (60 cm) between centers,
> 50 to 3500 revs.
> 2-3 hp (1500 to 2000 Watt), weight not more than 250 Kg.
>
> Until now I didn't find something appropriate.
> Has anybody suggestions?
> Sven Peter
>
> Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
>
> > Hi Sven,
> >
> > I think you've got that right, EMCO is Austrian, BETTER then Enco. Ever
> > used/seen the Prazi?
> >
> > Still Looking!
> >
> > Alan KM6VV
> >
> > "Sven Peter, TAD S.A." wrote:
> > >
> > > It might be that I am mixed up. Emco is an Austrian machine factory and
> > > Enco is a US tool supplier. Am I right?
> > > The Austrian machine factory normally had its two lines I mentioned in the earlier
> > > post. At least until 5 years ago. I was supposed to maintain quite a few different
> > > machines for the local vocational institute. And remember vivid the set up I had to arrange
> > > 16 years ago in our University, because neither the Emco-instalation man nor the professors
> > > were able to get the thing working right. To that time I only knew how to turn manually.
> > > After 2 free afternoons the thing worked like a clock. Except: the chuck wouldn't close centrical.
> > > There was no hope to turn both ends of a piece. And no steel and even in Plastic or aluminium
> > > you couldn't make any heavy cut. The control panel and software to that time was top.
> > > But what helps a nice control on a bubble gum lathe?
> > >
> > > On the other hand I had references and bulletins on real industrial machines from these people
> > > that were always light green and were supposed to work perfect.
> > > Good Luck
> > > Sven Peter
> > >
> > > Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Sven
> > > >
> > > > I hadn't heard about yellow machines. My 5" Sears/compact 5 lathe is
> > > > black and gray! So which EMCO mill color is best? Any sources??
> > > >
> > > > Alan KM6VV
> > > >
> > > > "Sven Peter, TAD S.A." wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I had some experience with Austrian Emco maschines. They build two clases.
> > > > > The yellow ones are stricktly for traineeship and would serve only on plastics and
> > > > > Aluminium. Although they have nice controls.
> > > > > The green ones are industrial quality and work fine.
> > > > > Bye
> > > > > Sven Peter
> > > > >
> > > > > wanliker@... wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > In a message dated 2/14/01 11:52:14 AM Mountain Standard Time, KM6VV@...
> > > > > > writes:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > << I want a second mill, a "big brother" to the Sherline! I'd looked at
> > > > > > the EMCO FB-2, >>
> > > > > > I have the EMCO FB-2, and it is an extremely nice machine
> > > > > > bill