Hey Andy - reading your web page - Ok - the Emco Compact-8 was the one copied extensively overseas. It was made in Austria originally.
The Compact-8 is approx 8" diameter swing and 18" between centres. The Asian 7x lathes are NOT equivalent, and are NOT copies of the Emco Compact-8. Some of the 9x20 Asian lathes were pretty good copies, some not so. One I saw in a store had the tailstock rattling about with about 1mm play. Some have various spindle threads, some have quick change gearboxes, etc, etc. I have two Austrian made Compact-8 lathes, and I *really* like them. Note that none have the vertical head on the back of the bed; that is a bit of an issue but people keep trying it. (One of my Compact-8s did have a vertical head added, but it's when my workshop in NL was about the size of a single bed, so I had only 1 machine tool and a small bench; it has not had this vertical head on it in close to 30 years) If/when I downsize, the old english iron (Kerry, Centec, etc) will go, but one of the Emco Compact-8s will remain, along with one of my CNC mills; we'll see which one. That's if, no plans but you never know... Just FYI - John. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > I am converting a Holbrook Minor lathe to CNC. > First stage, making it run on domestic power: > http://bodgesoc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/holbrook1.html > > -- > atp > If you can't fix it, you don't own it. > http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
