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Emco Compact 5 lathe / mill Vernon 09-25-2008
Posted by Vernon on September 28, 2008, 10:38 pm
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [ ... ]
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> > By way of follow-up to everybody. =A0I was the successful bidder for th=
e
> > Emco Compact 5 lathe / mill. =A0However, bidding was stiff and I was th=
e
> > only guy too dumb and hard headed to give up. =A0I don't even know if
> > it's complete with all the standard essential accessories. =A0I will
> > travel to pick it up early next week and will report back.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 If this was eBay -- now that it is won, could you post th=
e URL
> (or preferably auction number) for the auction so we can take a look at
> it? =A0I could at least tell you something of what might be missing -- or
> what you might want to look for. =A0My experience is more with the CNC
> version, but I've learned about a lot of the accessories in picking up
> more things for my CNC lathe.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Not as sure of the Mill adaptor -- though I have one of t=
he mill
> heads on a separate X-Y base to make it a standalone mill. =A0(The column
> mounting bracket has the wrong screw pattern to fit the holes on the
> back of the lathe bed, so I have never used it under CNC control.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Best of luck,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 DoN.
>
> --
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dnicho=
ls/DoN.html
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero =
---

Don,

I'd be both honored and grateful for you to take a peek. Here are
both auctions: One for the lathe / mill and the other for the KBC
bench mill. I now have the bench mill. Hope to fetch the lathe
within the next day or two.

Vernon

http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=3Dwtb1887

http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=3Dmmt42149




Posted by RB on September 29, 2008, 2:25 pm
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Vernon wrote:
>>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>> By way of follow-up to everybody. I was the successful bidder for the
>>> Emco Compact 5 lathe / mill. However, bidding was stiff and I was the
>>> only guy too dumb and hard headed to give up. I don't even know if
>>> it's complete with all the standard essential accessories. I will
>>> travel to pick it up early next week and will report back.
>> If this was eBay -- now that it is won, could you post the URL
>> (or preferably auction number) for the auction so we can take a look at
>> it? I could at least tell you something of what might be missing -- or
>> what you might want to look for. My experience is more with the CNC
>> version, but I've learned about a lot of the accessories in picking up
>> more things for my CNC lathe.
>>
>> Not as sure of the Mill adaptor -- though I have one of the mill
>> heads on a separate X-Y base to make it a standalone mill. (The column
>> mounting bracket has the wrong screw pattern to fit the holes on the
>> back of the lathe bed, so I have never used it under CNC control.
>>
>> Best of luck,
>> DoN.
>>
>> --
>> (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
>> --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---
>
> Don,
>
> I'd be both honored and grateful for you to take a peek. Here are
> both auctions: One for the lathe / mill and the other for the KBC
> bench mill. I now have the bench mill. Hope to fetch the lathe
> within the next day or two.
>
> Vernon
>
> http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=wtb1887

No tooling shown in the picture, hopefully some will be with it when you
pick it up.
At that price I think you did OK. One of those milling attachments alone
sold for over $500 on ebay a few weeks ago.

> http://www.dovebid.com/assets/display.asp?ItemID=mmt42149

Pretty good deal on that mill-drill

Posted by DoN. Nichols on October 2, 2008, 6:24 pm
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>>         (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html

        [ ... ]

> Hey Don, I didn't know you were an accordion player. So am I
> although I am a dunce on the concertina. I played 120 bass piano key
> accordion as a kid. V

        Well ... not accordion -- just concertina (and tinwhistle).
Which style of concertina did you try? Probably an Anglo style ((loke a
couple of harmonicas in two different keys broken in half wit the low
end going up the left hand side and the high end going down the right
hand side, so if you turned both hands palms down (and the bellows was
long enough to allow this), you could see the buttons form a row per
harmonica. Anyway -- this style gives a different note on press vs draw
for each button. If you play the Piano Accordion, you could probably
play the English system concertina fairly well too.

        The English system is what I play.

        Enjoy,
                DoN.

--
        (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---

Posted by Vernon on October 2, 2008, 8:09 pm
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> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dni=
chols/DoN.html
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [ ... ]
>
> > Hey Don, =A0I didn't know you were an accordion player. =A0So am I
> > although I am a dunce on the concertina. =A0I played 120 bass piano key
> > accordion as a kid. =A0V
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Well ... not accordion -- just concertina (and tinwhistle=
).
> Which style of concertina did you try? =A0Probably an Anglo style ((loke =
a
> couple of harmonicas in two different keys broken in half wit the low
> end going up the left hand side and the high end going down the right
> hand side, so if you turned both hands palms down (and the bellows was
> long enough to allow this), you could see the buttons form a row per
> harmonica. =A0Anyway -- this style gives a different note on press vs dra=
w
> for each button. =A0If you play the Piano Accordion, you could probably
> play the English system concertina fairly well too.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 The English system is what I play.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Enjoy,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 DoN.
>
> --
564
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (too) near Washington D.C. |http://www.d-and-d.com/dnicho=
ls/DoN.html
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero =
---

I thought all concertinas were diatonic until reading your post. I
had one for a time I bought on ebay but never got the hang of it so I
sold it the same way. I've also played the Mexican corrido type
diatonics and similarly, with little success. It's odd because I play
the harmonica reasonably well. But I never could get the "innie
outie" difference when it transferred to my fingers. We're also
interested in the tin whistles and anything Irish. My older son is
quite the virtuoso on the tin whistle.

V

Posted by DoN. Nichols on October 2, 2008, 11:32 pm
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        [ ... ]

>>         Well ... not accordion -- just concertina (and tinwhistle).
>> Which style of concertina did you try?  Probably an Anglo style ((loke a

        [ ... ]

>>         The English system is what I play.

        [ ... ]

> I thought all concertinas were diatonic until reading your post. I
> had one for a time I bought on ebay but never got the hang of it so I
> sold it the same way. I've also played the Mexican corrido type
> diatonics and similarly, with little success. It's odd because I play
> the harmonica reasonably well.

        My brain's wiring does not fit the diatonics, either. The
English system is fully chromatic, typically 3-1/2 octaves (from G below
middle C to C three octaves above middle C). This is the range of the
Treble English. My preference is a Tenor-Treble -- starts a half octave
below that at the C below middle C and goes up as far as the Treble
does.

        All notes on the left hand are on the lines of the staff, and
all on the right hand are on the spaces, so a run alternates hands. (It
does make it easier to pick up playing from sheet music, as does the
nice mapping of the physical position of the buttons to the lines and
spaces. There are some duplications in the accidentals, such as D# and
Eb -- on opposite hands.

> But I never could get the "innie
> outie" difference when it transferred to my fingers.

        Those who can -- especially coming from the harmonica -- seem to
tie the bellows travel to their breathing patterns. :-)

> We're also
> interested in the tin whistles and anything Irish. My older son is
> quite the virtuoso on the tin whistle.

        Hmm ... does he happen to have one (or more) of the Copeland
tin whistles? Expensive, but worth it.

        Perhaps we should drop to e-mail for this, as we are well off
topic for the newsgroup. :-)

        Or -- we could move to rec.music.makers.squeezebox. :-)

        Please avoid HTML and attachments when e-mailing to me.

        Enjoy,
                DoN.

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        (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---

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