RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Mill-Drills

I have been going thru this whole thing- some what like you. I currently
have a CNC Sherline which is "not enought" for me. I am thingking very
seroisly about a Smithy of Shoptask. In my wondering, I found this
http://www.microkinetics.com/cncdmill.htm\

This is a "mill drill" with ball screws and CNC. It a bit pricy, but
everything form Microkinetics is. I have only been in touck with on person
that actuly has one of these and he raved about it. In his case, he has a
knee mill (and a bunch of other big stuff) in the shead out back, but got
this to put in the spare bed room. He indicared he does mostly work in
Alum, but feels with proper care and "smart" cutting, these is little he
couldn't do on it. He does climb milling on T6 stock and often takes .250"
cuts with out chatter and claims to get very repetable resuts (enouth that
he can come back and do a cut with .002" less off set and cut all the way
around the part.

This would seem to indicat to me that it is possible. How they get to
nearly $10,000 when starting with a $1000 mill I don't know. but I would
bet that many of the fokes from this group could do the same conversion for
a fraction of that cost and have a very useable set up