Thanks for the response Andy I'm pretty sure I've got my dims right but I've got a job set up in the 3 jaw at the moment as soon as i've finished I'll check them again and let you know. The chuck location spigot on your back plate at 55.5mm is much to big for the Orac as its max tapper dia. is only ...

Hope this works.
Dims from Orac nose and purchased Emco back plate.

Rod

Just a bit to add to my last post. Has nobody else solved this problem yet as I need a 4 jaw and face plate for my work.

Rod.

Hi guys don't now if anybody is still interested in this thread but after my disappointment with my back plate and chuck yesterday I decided to check a few dimensions today. Here is what I found. The Orac or Emco does not follow the drawings obtained from lathes.co.uk (they are similar but smaller) ...

Its definatly is not the standard Emco 8 Spindle nose the Orac nose is to small. The info from lathes.co.uk I think maybe for the Emco 8, the B dim for the Max. taper dia. for nose size 3 is 53.985mm, I measured mine at about 41.08. Dim. A is 102 on the Orac its 78. Add to that I just made the same ...

Thanks for the response. The IMO I have is the VC150 but I tried as you suggested with it disconnected from the system and a manual push switch but the fault led still comes on when the switch is pushed and there is no response from the motor. So I suppose the inverter is U/S. If this is the case wo...

Hi Guy,s new I,m new to this forum, I have just bought an Orac lathe but the spindle does not turn in manual or in a program. The vfd is a Imo Jaguar Cub, the vfd light is on but when I press the spindle on button on the control panel the fault light comes on.

Can anybody help please, thanks.