Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Hairbrained idea, just slightly OT

Brian:

If you are VERY, VERY poor, and have LOTS of time on your hands, and are
VERY, VERY skilled (i.e., can do very precision work), then the answer to
your question "will it work" would be "perhaps, if you are also VERY lucky,
and are one of those rare folks who can "do EVERYTHING right the first time".


If any of these atributes are absent, you would be much better off to to use
new Size-23 (or at least good (bipolar???!!!) Size-17 motors for this
application.

Smaller "sheet-metal housing" steppers might do ONLY if your mechanism is
very precise, drag-free, and the pens you use glide like Teflon on glass.

Lotsa luck! (Save yourself some grief and buy some good new bipolar motors
and Gecko 210 drives! Something like this that "works first time" will make
it worth it after you watch it work for two minutes! I won't SAY in writing
what the effect of frustration of some kludge will be! BEEN there, done
that!

Jan Rowland