I'm just curious, what if you had just the lathe, but nothing else. How much would it cost to make it cnc? More or less the stepper motors and all the "special" electric components. I have computers, but they're not 32 bit and don't have a parallel port, so I don't think that will work with Mach3 or linuxcnc.
I was thinking it could be possible to get a arduino and some drivers and stepper motors that would work with it and then manually zero the machine and have a pre-written program that would have to do it all in one go.... Probably the cheapest route, but not a very good one.
I don't own any mills or lathes, much less done any real work on them. This is just for curiosity and maybe future use.
Thanks,
Awaqa909
I was thinking it could be possible to get a arduino and some drivers and stepper motors that would work with it and then manually zero the machine and have a pre-written program that would have to do it all in one go.... Probably the cheapest route, but not a very good one.
I don't own any mills or lathes, much less done any real work on them. This is just for curiosity and maybe future use.
Thanks,
Awaqa909