Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: re:hand jive

Manual vs cnc: as you say it all depends.

A friend of mine was just given a 3 spindle milling machine made right at the last of WWII for machining the instrument panel (I
think) for B-29's. Cost in WWII dollars was about $300.000. Considering that inflation is 6-10 times since then this is a cool
million or two machne in todays dollars. I suspect that any cnc for about $100K will do the same job and be much more flexible.
That machine was maybe one of three specially constructed just for this one job.

As for myself: I'm simply not repeatable enough to make parts with 60 different ops and get them right. The simple stuff I can do
by hand. The complex I am going to have to do by cnc for both accuracy and repeatability. Just the way it is for me.

Dave