I'm planning to build a decent sized router using an old horizontal camera base unit similar to the picture attached. I'm thinking this would be a good start to a moving table design as this machine has two moving beds. The first one is to adjust the cameras focus and the second table moves the picture frame thingy. I plan to link the two beds together to provide the base fot the moving table. The machine needs little modification to change it to a router as all the slides are in place andready to go. I hope to achieve a working envelope of 48" x 60".
Anyway l was wondering if anyone else has tried to retro these machines? I would like any and all comments about this massive undertakeing or if anyone else would like a similar machine to retro these a couple on ebay. Smaller than the one i hooked onto.
As well i would like some advise on controlers and stepper motors i know nothing about this end of cnc.