Hello,
I am finally ready to do my first mach retrofit. After considering retrofitting a machining center, I'm stepping back and am going to retrofit a Shizuoka cnc knee mill. It currently has steppers on it which are nice and mounted and obviously the drivers for it, etc. I am tempted to use those. For step angle, it says I.8 (is the "I" really a "1" ??). The brand is rapidsyn on the motors, the enclosure says "the Hasbach company" and the manuals say Allen Bradley.
So I guess I have two questions:
1) Can and should I use the existing stepper motors.
2) Can and should I use the existing stepper drivers?
Thanks,
Bill