Hi All,
I'm just about to dip my first toe into the waters of CNC.
My question is in the view of the enlightened members of this group, are the ORAC and TRIAC machines suitable for machining steel. This would be in a model engineering/hobby environment, not a production workshop. There again, you never know !
Cheers,
Paul
Steel or not?
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Yeah, work great, got one of each, but....
don't expect much from the controller - the technology is 20 years old (maybe more) If you get these machines they are well built but expect to refit the control system with something like Mach3.
Unless yuou find a fanuc controlled triac, they're not too bad but limited on the size of the program you can load - with mach3 the only size limit is the size of your hard drive
Orac's program size is even smaller at around 500 lines (if I remember right) assuming you can get the computer to talk to the machine;)
don't expect much from the controller - the technology is 20 years old (maybe more) If you get these machines they are well built but expect to refit the control system with something like Mach3.
Unless yuou find a fanuc controlled triac, they're not too bad but limited on the size of the program you can load - with mach3 the only size limit is the size of your hard drive
Orac's program size is even smaller at around 500 lines (if I remember right) assuming you can get the computer to talk to the machine;)
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