Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Shall we buy this ??

Dave Fisher wrote:

>I am seriously thinking of buying the item in the follwing URL
>
>http://www.henrybutcher.com/en/equipmentdetails.asp?sOfferID=278655
>
>Its' the Mother of all CNC Router / Mills !!!
>
>Problem is - it's in the north of the UK and before I treck 400 miles or so,
>can anyone advise if they know the maker - I cant trace anyting on the web ?
>One of the problems we forsee is moving it - it must weigh in at several
>tonnes !!
>
>Of coarse the price may get out of our league - it was 2000 Pounds a day or
>so ago !
>
>

Several tonnes? How about several HUNDRED tonnes? This is a HUGE
machine, and certainly no "router", it is a HORIZONTAL BORING MILL,
as best as I can tell, 8 x 3 M table. The original maker may have very
little to do with this, it appears to be a retrofitted machine. It is
at 10.5 K GBP at the moment, pretty reasonable for what it is.
Note it is a Horizontal spindle! If you want a router, it isn't going
to be easy to use that way, as you'd have to mount all your boards
against a vertical surface.

Jon