Hey all, newbie here. I've been searching your forums for years for information on different equipment and tips. This is my first actual post.
I'm shopping for a manual vertical mill for my home shop and haven't had the best luck at commercial equipment resellers.
Once in awhile I run across an ancient CNC mill will a blown board that looks like a prime candidate for pulling the servos off and converting to a manual mill (J-head clones, Kondias, etc). These tend to have less slop and less drill marks in the beds than the typical Bridgeport that served as a drill press for the later twenty years of it's life with no regular lubrication intervals.
Having no knowledge of CNC and putting it off until I'm ready to jump back into trying to comprehend vector-graphing, I'm under the assumption that there's some cut-off point where CNC green-screen systems are just to dated to do anything with. But I would hate to stuff a dumpster with a pile of hardware that I found out in the near future was completely adaptable to a usable current CNC setup.
So the question is; What are the key things to look for in an old green-screen CNC system to tell if it's usable for CNC and what systems should I look into to understand what goes into trying to adapt a jurassic control system to something worth playing with?
Just a feeler for information. I couldn't find any info while doing forum searches.
I'm shopping for a manual vertical mill for my home shop and haven't had the best luck at commercial equipment resellers.
Once in awhile I run across an ancient CNC mill will a blown board that looks like a prime candidate for pulling the servos off and converting to a manual mill (J-head clones, Kondias, etc). These tend to have less slop and less drill marks in the beds than the typical Bridgeport that served as a drill press for the later twenty years of it's life with no regular lubrication intervals.
Having no knowledge of CNC and putting it off until I'm ready to jump back into trying to comprehend vector-graphing, I'm under the assumption that there's some cut-off point where CNC green-screen systems are just to dated to do anything with. But I would hate to stuff a dumpster with a pile of hardware that I found out in the near future was completely adaptable to a usable current CNC setup.
So the question is; What are the key things to look for in an old green-screen CNC system to tell if it's usable for CNC and what systems should I look into to understand what goes into trying to adapt a jurassic control system to something worth playing with?
Just a feeler for information. I couldn't find any info while doing forum searches.