Making money from CNC - in a home enviroment

Hi,

I wanted to ask how many of the members have been sucessful in making some money, or a living, back from their interest in CNC.

CNC and physical productivity has always been something that's really interested me and I'd like to be able to do something that I enjoy as a job. However, I'm a bit unsure of just how achievable this is when looking towards the competition.

To keep this thread within the bounds of CCED, I mean CNC equipment that can realistically be owned by a home user. That doesn't require 50MW for the spindle alone, cost a million dollars or require a degree in mathematics to run. Rather plasma tables, converted knee mills, desktop mills and such.

What makes me wonder is that the highest earning work is being done on machines tens of times quicker and stronger than something like a converted knee mill.

So, I'd be really interest to hear if anyone has managed to turn CNC at home into something they can make something back from.

Best wishes,
John

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