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CNC Machining

Do you need to run a warmup routine on the small emco f1 cnc?

Machining flat sheets on the EMCO F1 CNC I was machining flat sheets out of plastic when I noticed something. With time the cutter got progressively deeper into the workpiece. I thought this was strange. I checked the workpiece, the work coordinate system and more but it would just not make any sense to me. […]

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CNC Machining

Retrofitting my emco f1 cnc was actually very easy to do

My friend and myself agreed to also meet this summer, after last summer has been a great experience for us both. We learned a lot while using the emco and doing more and more complex parts programming everything by hand. In winter before we would meet, we thought about what we would produce on our […]

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CNC Machining

How to write better g-code for the original emco f1 cnc controller

When I got my machine, I did not know how to operate it. It was just like dark magic for me. I soon figured out how to move the axis and run the spindle. On the second day I had my machine I was able to run whole programs that I typed into the very […]