I'm interested in building a CNC router and in the course of searching around online I found what I feel was a decent deal on some CNC equipment. I attached pictures of what I bought.
Unfortunately I'm not really sure whether what I got is the best thing to use. I got a pair of X-Y tables (one from Schneeberger and one from NEAT). Both have approximately 12" of travel. The schneeberger one says not repairable on it but the only thing I can see wrong is some messed up wires on a limit switch. I also got some form of Y-Z gantry (22"x6" of movement) without any motors and a ton of slides, leadscrews, motors and controllers and such as shown in the pics. Please let me know if I need to give more details on anything.
My question given that I want to make a CNC router with possibly some aluminum and engraving work thrown in later is - should I try and use these tables somehow and buy a breakout board and power supply or should I sell these tables and use the cash to buy the parts to build something instead? I'm not really worried about size of the machine since I figure that I could scale up later. What would you do?