Kopal Milling Clamps

[Jay]

No body blamed the equipment. What I said was that they where only designed for clamping on a good clean edge or otherwise you would need more force if the edge was slightly out or serrated for instance. The idea of havin clamps made as you describe would not have worked at all and would have offered even less clamping force as flame cut plates can come out with all manner of edge shapes. I hope I'm coming across ok as I sometimes hate this where you try to describe something over the Internet but it's so much easier face to face.
By all accounts as uv said above they are good clamps and I liked them even to the point where I suggested the use of them to a few companies uv worked for but as always cost played a part and if you know Kopal then you know they where not cheap. In fact while I write this I seem to remember I bought a few sets home after my brother did a management buy out of the company and sold the machines off and they where sat in the tooling locker so I grabbed them before someone else did.
I'll have to have a rummage around and see if I can't find them and if I can then I'll stick them on here if their of use to someone as iv packed in due to terminal cancer so they are no use to me and never will be now. Got an old emco compact 5 Cnc gathering dust with loads of stuff and tapes with it to if their still being used by people or is it a case of scrapping because people are not interested in them anymore? ( been out the game a while so no idea what's the in thing these days you see...lol)

[magicniner]

Got an old emco compact 5 Cnc gathering dust with loads of stuff and tapes with it to if their still being used by people or is it a case of scrapping because people are not interested in them anymore? ( been out the game a while so no idea what's the in thing these days you see...lol)

The EMCO stuff is still cutting chips, most now use MACH3 or LinuxCNC, some use parallel port & break out board, others USB or Ethernet and an external motion controller. Some use the old steppers, some replace them but the base hardware is good and is still worth having,

- Nick