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Cheers good work now have two wood-turners

Hi Marty This is my plan I want to keep the post short without boring readers The pictures attached show Butler lathe which we use for machining simple posts, but some designs require more detail, hence I want to make it into simple basic CNC lathe, eg CNC the X & Z axis. I will select spindle s...

Hi Marty
What are the limitations of the acorn, are 8 I/O enough to build a CNC wood lathe.
The open loop with acorn will that cause any problems
I have Red Cover Fanuc servo motors would you recommend to reuse
How best to send pictures to forum.

Chester

Thank you Marty thank you for your welcome and I thank you for the your wonderful You Tube tutorials. Has anybody used ACME tread leadscrew instead of ballscrew. I have a English Butler 3m long lathe which I want to convert, I assume there will be backlash problems to solve amongst other things ?? R...

Hello World and greetings from Birmingham UK, Bought Acorn to learn CNC machine building and with view to upgrade some old CNC woodturning lathes to use std G codes. Would like to talk to any body in UK who has Acorn and perhaps help each other. I have gone with Centroid because it has a good member...