Hi,

I've been following this forum for some time now and dabbling with various CNC bits but for a change I thought I'd try something slightly different: I've just bought a Japanese microscope from Ebay for 20 quid including postage (it arrived today, sunday - isn't Parcelforce wonderful) - no lenses but it's as solid as a very heavy solid brick, complete with orthogonal rack/pinion guides on three axes and thought that it may make a nice, if limited travel, CNC machine - Anyone out there tried something similar?

I've so far stripped it down to basics and removed the mirror/bottom light guide stuff leaving the Z barrel which has an internal diameter of 28.75mm and XY table, so without any metal bashing should be able to fit a mini-drill in there and maintain the intrinsic accuracy of the stages. It may not go anywhere, just putting down my marker and to encourage me for the future.

All the Best