7HP Tracer Mill Adaptation... Need Suggestions

Hi all,
This is my first post so I hope I am not to far off catagory here. I have a large 7 HP 3phase SAJO (sweden) knee type tracer mill I purchased about 5 years ago with intention of adapting LinuxEMC to. I have done nothing so far other than I just downloaded the newest stable version of EMC2 and am seeking suggestions of where to get the technical info that will be required to adapt EMC to my mill. It uses a GETTYS Transducer on the tracer and Huge GETTYS motors drive the 3 axis travels. Any tips, links, and pointers appreciated in advance.
best regards, Jerry
PS: I will take digital photos of the mill and all components and connections to attach to my next post for reference.

Hi can you describe the drives? mostly are they servo drives or stepper drives or mechanical (clutches)?
For cnc of course you need servo or steppers.
so for servos - you need to decide on motors, drives and encoders and interface card
for steppers - motors, drives and maybe interface cards.
look on the wiki wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware for interface cards that work with emc.

Hey All,
I finally uncluttered enough of my mill to take some pics. The drive motors for the 3 axis are giant servo motors (see pics). There is one pic of all the relays and contactors that control the servos and a pic of the manual control panel also; I assume I will need some sort of interface between the manual control panel and EMC. Anyhow feel free to take a look at the pics and post any questions or suggestions you might have or if more pics or details are needed let me know. Till then, Jerry

Well, so much for the pics... either I don't know how to post them or they are to large as I got a message that my image exceeded 800 pixel limit or something. Tried to figure out how to post about 6 pics but have not figured out how yet, Sorry, Jerry

Ok Folks here is a link to my Picasa web albumn titled "SAJO" where you can see the pics I mentioned in the previous post. picasaweb.google.com/mdg11fbf/SAJO?feat=directlink Jerry

I'm not sure John, it was set up for doing "Stanley" wrenches and if you look hard you can see the pattern blocks attached to the table. I have never ran it yet and am just now ready to run the wiring for it so I figured this is a great time to dig in to adapting EMC. Jerry