So I've never owned any type of cnc machine outside of 3d printers, am I crazy to buy a really old cnc machine/controller?
I found an old lockformer cnc plasma table for sale probably slightly over what I could buy it from my scrapyard for. No plasma machine with it but the gantry works under power on all of its axis. Condition wise from the pictures it looks decent for it's age. I had plans to build a plasma as a way down the road future project and I understand the electronics of how modern machines work, not so much this 1980s thing though. Worst case I store it for a few years and then strip it to the frame and build a stepper motor plasma out of it?
Is anyone familiar with this picopath control system? Say I were to use it as is how would I load programs to it? Buy an external floppy disk to use with my computer? lol. Would any program today that can create g code possibly work?
I found an old lockformer cnc plasma table for sale probably slightly over what I could buy it from my scrapyard for. No plasma machine with it but the gantry works under power on all of its axis. Condition wise from the pictures it looks decent for it's age. I had plans to build a plasma as a way down the road future project and I understand the electronics of how modern machines work, not so much this 1980s thing though. Worst case I store it for a few years and then strip it to the frame and build a stepper motor plasma out of it?
Is anyone familiar with this picopath control system? Say I were to use it as is how would I load programs to it? Buy an external floppy disk to use with my computer? lol. Would any program today that can create g code possibly work?