I suspect that could also be the case on some of the manual machines we serviced for them. Go figure, a government department paying three times, if not more, to get the same machine running for it to never get used. He said that he suspects those were the only times the machine was run, with demo wax and for an hour or two. but they have long left the college and all the current lecturers don't have a clue. I eventually got hold of the local Emco guys and he said that he has already trained guys there twice to run the machine. Yeah, I'm off to the place tomorrow again to try figure it out. I took off the fanuc front end to get to the key switch to see if anything was faulty and did not see any remnants of a PC, which is strange since the CD rom sits right under it, covered in the sheet metal. I don't want to in particular strip the entire front off to see if there is anything going on behind there. Where the hell do I power the PC up and where is the PC? In my picture of the keyboard the cd rom sits under the operator buttons and just above the keyboard but I cannot see anything else? I assume it should be there somewhere? I tried the keyswitch on the control panel but nothing powers up. Probably why this machine has just stood here for so many years. I appreciate their reply since it seems none of the others, even the local one, give a shit. Boot as you would any PC and launch the WinNC program. So I mailed a few Emco dealerships world wide and the only one that got back to me was Emco USA with Don't get me on to the point about how the guy is actually going to train people if he has never seen it working. This one, the current lecturer has never seen it powered up. Yeah, you would be surprised how many machines get sold to training places without actually ever being commissioned properly. Thanks for the replies guys and the links.

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