Emco f1p manual

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Interest will be charged to your account from the purchase date if the balance is not paid in full within 6 months. Report item — opens in a new window or tab. Watertown, Connecticut, United States. They were at one time pretty much Siemens controlled, but over the last say years been working more and more with Fanuc while still offering Siemens mainly.

Just how old is this machine, just curious. The F1 was an educational model. Acme screws among other things. The F1P was a much better machine. The "P" meant production. High accuracy ball screws, 1hp, rpm spindle and a few other improvements over the F1. The F1P came with the same basic proprietary control as their small production lathes. It's mostly been pretty reliable other than normal wear parts.

However, if you have issues, and the model has been out of production over 10 years, good luck. They only service currently produced or recent machines. I got lucky and found a retired service tech on this forum that used to work on my machine way back when, and he got me up and running, no prob. But for factory service you'll be SOL. My advice Hello Tom, The guy that helped you would be me.

Hope all is going well. I just rececntly went back with Emco. They still do service the older machines, in the past few months I have have made trips to Texas and other places to work on machines from the late 80s and early 90s.

There are some difficulties getting some parts for the older ones. Siemens has stopped making new parts for the series control. They will still repair components, but no new are being made. Emco stopped producing EmcoTronic controls and drives years ago also but I believe still may repair the drive boards. There is also a guy on here, wrench, that does board repairs.

We are in the process of adding some more service support personell. If anyone on the board needs some help please feel free to PM me and I will do what I can. I check the board several times a day and there are several people on here that can vouch for my doing what I can even on my own time.

Take care, Dave. Laurentian liked this post. That has to be the biggest problem with Emco. Call for tech support and paying the 25 or 50 bucks for a tech support call is not a problem, waiting several days for the return call is. Additional photographs here The original Emco self-contained, geared-head 4-speed milling machines.

Continued below:. The earliest Emco miller was an adaptation of the Maximat Series lathe with a vertically mounted shortened replica of the lathe bed that could accept the sliding-spindle headstock. Additional photographs here. The original Emco self-contained, geared-head 4-speed milling machines Continued: While the 4-speed head used paddle-type speed-change levers located by tiny, fiddly-to-engage pins as also found on Emco lathes of the time the 6-speed version had much larger, more easily-gripped plastic handles fitted with spring-loaded indexing.

The belt-drive models were, of course, a lot slower to change speed: the belt-guard plate on the side of the head first had to be removed, the motor unclamped and swivelled to slacken the belt, the belt shifted to its new position and tensioned, the motor clamp retightened and finally the guard-plate replaced.

All models had a head that swivelled through degrees with a vernier scale for precise setting , a No. The quill together with the bolt head for the draw bar protruded though the top surface of the head and, while protected by a flimsy plastic cover on the 6-speed models, was left exposed on the 4-speed version.

The head had a fine-feed drive, but only at degrees to the table and by winding the whole head up and down the column; hence, with feeds along the axis of the quill limited to rapid-action the machine's capacity to handle very sensitive angled jobs was restricted to setting them up in an angled vice, or similar.

If the head needed to be rotated around the vertical axis of the column the latter could be unclamped from its housing by two socket-headed screws and, guided by a ring of degree markings, swung to whatever position was desired. While quill travel on the geared-head models was 40 mm, on the belt-drive types this was increased to 50 mm.

The 4-speed head had a throat of mm, the necessarily deeper 6-speed FB2 version had mm of clearance and the belt-drive units - which required an even greater spacing between their pulleys - mm. Although the latter figure gave the belt heads a capacity advantage over the geared type and was a useful feature in so compact a machine the extra leverage it imposed between cutter and column meant that rates of metal removal could not be as heavy.

Both the spindle and "head-to-column" were locked by simple clamp bolts fitted, on the 4-speed model, with ordinary nuts but on other versions by a type of propriety lever that could be indexed round to the most convenient operating position. Almost exact copies of the FB-2 were also made in Taiwan and marketed under various brand names e. Poseidon in the U. These copies, very much less expensive than the Austrian-built machines, still appear to have been a soundly engineered proposition and the few examples encountered by the writer all worked quietly and with commendable precision..

Fine-downfeed handwheel, engraved micrometer dial and riveted-on zero-line marker on the 4-speed model. This design of wheel was to replace the original rather nasty plastic wheels on the table feeds.