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Dedicated to the Austrian made Emco Compact8 lathe and its many copies from Taiwan (the 818 is a 100% C8 clone) and from mainland China (919 and 920 are both to 80% C8 clones).
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The photo shows a Groz type toolholder made to my design in the files section, but with a slightly higher body to match a 9" swing lathe, and exclusively beautifully finished all over. Unfortunately I forgot who made it... and also I think at some stage there were modified plans around for it.
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Re: Emco Compact 8E Threading
Welcome viper065, It is rare for metric lathes to have a thread dial. It simply is not as useful, as it can be as on a lathe with imperial leadscrew. And
Posted - Sun Oct 4, 2009 10:31 pm
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Emco Compact 8E Threading
I have located (but not yet seen) an 8E. The somewhat knowledge -challenged owner represents it as a "full metric" lathe and indicates that there is no thread
Posted - Sun Oct 4, 2009 10:03 pm
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Posted - Mon Sep 7, 2009 6:37 pm
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Re: Farewell Compact 8
... No worries Jan, I won't. If I when I get a larger lathe, the C8 will become my "watchmaker" lathe, reserved for small precision items only. I think that is
Posted - Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:00 am
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Posted - Wed Sep 2, 2009 5:43 pm
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