I have an option to buy an old PCB Pick & Place machine. For those not in the electronics industry, these are a very solid flat bed about 1500mm square with an X-Y gantry above it holding tooling for placing parts on circuit boards. The drive is several 1" leadscrews, with AC servomotors and associated drive electronics.
It has been out in the rain, and has been ratted every time another machine broke, so everything apart from the basic mechanics is probably broken or missing. The X-Y motions still turn by hand though, so I could replace the motors with steppers no problem.
It looks ideal for conversion to a wood router, has anyone ever done anything similar? I would love to see some pictures.
Celephicus