Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Newbie Loosing Mind........Need Shootout......Small Desktops..FAST

what is the "RF" that you refer to? do you have a url?

thx,

lw

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From: "dave_ace_me" <davemucha@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:32 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Newbie Loosing Mind........Need
Shootout......Small Desktops..FAST


> > You are suffering from Analysis Paralysis.
>
> I like that term.
>
> The small desktop is the point that stands out for me.
> a Taig is very small, the Sherline is lightweight
> there is a pre-packaged CNC the MAXNC
> then you move up into mini mills, out of the desktop to the bench top
> like the mini-mill (Grizzley/HF) These are more serious machines.
>
> For the money you mentioned, the whole milling arena is open to you.
> You can get an old Bridgeport Series one for less than 2K, or a
> decent one for less than 4k and still have enought left over to put
> in new electronics.
>
> If you want a small ready to run, the MaxNC uses steppers so you can
> use your own controllers and software.
>
> one version is on e-bay right now.....
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1716647064
> and they have a yahoo group.
>
> If you want to CNC it yourself, I would not go less than a mini-
> mill. Regardless of your current needs, in the future, you will look
> at a hunk of metal and say "if I could just hold that in my table...."
>
> The mini mill, all manual is around $500, and the RF (the 1,000lb
> mother of all benchtops) starts is only $1,000. And you will find
> use for the 2 ton engine hoist you need to buy to move it !
> Microkinetics does RF retro-fits and pre-packaged mills.
>
> I would look at the largerst iron I could fit.
> then if I wanted a packeged unit or a DIY unit
> that's it. the choice is whatever fits.
> Larger means more mass and less vibration and deeper cuts.
>
> Once you got to an R8 collet machine, the whole milling/tool holding
> world opens to you. under that and you are limited with the bits
> that will fit.
>
> I don't know if that helps or not, just my take on it.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "onecooltoolfool" <joevicar3@i...> wrote:
> > The type of "consumer reports" special you want ain't gonna happen.
> > The field changes so fast and there are so many newcommers every
> > month you would never get a "book" published fast enough.
> > It sounds like you have done enough looking to get a decent idea.
> > Read the list archives, go to the NAMES show and see some real
> > machines running. That's the easiest way to make up your mind.
> > I went through the same running in circles when I bought my first
> > Don't agonize over the
> > details. You will learn what you need to know 1000 times faster if
> > you just buy one and start using it. You won't really know what
> you
> > want or need intil you do. What you think you are going to do with
> > it never is really what you DO with it.
> >
> > Joe V.
>
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