I wanted to get an ORAC lathe until I found a teardown and rebuild forum thread on one. They're a Compact 8 clone and the back third or so of the cross slide is cut off so they don't have much travel.
On Friday, May 12, 2017, 7:38:27 AM MDT, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:On 12 May 2017 at 13:16, Les Newell <les.new...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > The ATC on my lathe is a turret I originally made for a Denford Orac (a > small education CNC lathe). There is a specific HAL component for that tool changer, and for a couple of closely-related ones. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ContributedComponents#Denford_Orac_Lathe_ATC_toolchanger_component I believe that the Orac was actually named after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_Blake%27s_7#Orac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
