A good while ago now I bought a Denford Orac CNC Lathe off of eBay for £500. It was a good investment, the lathe was in very good condition having only ever worked on plastics in a school room. The lathe was running its original electronics. Every so often one of the stepper motor drivers would decide to die and I’d have to fix it. Obviously it always broke at the mos
Here’s what an Orac looks like, it is the first time my Orac actually cut some metal:t inoppurtune moments, so I decided to upgrade the lathe to run Mach3 on a computer with some new stepper motor drivers.
To see what I’m currently doing with the Orac, see the Denford Orac Blog.