After costing up the various parts I decided to buy an old secound hand machine off ebay and retro fit some new electronics. Took delivery of the machine yesterday evening, its an Autograpth Multicutter large bed router ( 4m * 3m) with a vacuum bed and coolent system. Its big downfall is the electronics it was made back in 1988 so a new control system is prob going to be needed, to make it a usefull machine. The z-axis is pneumatic so I plan to convert that to ball screw.
The X and Y axis are both rack and pinion, does mach 3 support a mixture of Rack and Pinion and ball screws?
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