RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Total Novice - Not a Clue

Thanks for all the help & suggestions.

One thing I should have mentioned...I'm in the UK...Anyone know any
suppliers over here ?

Thanks

Jerry

>--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "jerrysteel2000" <jerrysteel@h...>
>wrote:
> > Hi Guys...
> >
> > I know nothing at all about CNC and before I start finding out more
> > and lusting after a system, I've got a question...Whats it going to
> > cost ?
>
>
>I have $2100 in my 4 axis router table. I bought the drives from Gecko,
>breakout
>board from Bob Campbell, motors from Sanyo and power supply from
>Transformer
>Technologies. All of this was plug and play. Just follow the directions
>and it should
>work right out of the box. I was cutting parts the same day I first
>flipped the power
>switch. The computer is an older 550MHZ box that I retired from the
>office. I built
>everything else from raw materias in my shop.
>
>Well almost everything. I'm using a Porter Cable router and an indexing
>head as a 4th
>axis.
>
>I figure I could do a milling machine for less providing I didn't have to
>rebuild the
>machine first. I've always got my eyes open for a cheap manual Bridgeport.
>
>I use this machine for production work, so reliability is very important.
>I've had little
>issues, but nothing that stopped a job from going out the door on time. To
>everyones surprise, even mine to a degree, this machine has been very
>reliable.
>Anything that does go wrong can be fixed by me... many times with the
>assistance of
>the group.... instead of paying a tech to fly in from Japan...or where
>ever.
>
>Ross
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