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Limited budget Home Shop?

Posted by Jesse Lim
on 2007-04-06 20:47:42 UTC
Dear Everybody,

I decided to set up my own home shop, to satisfy
my machining hobby and maybe earn a little bit
money to do some prototyping work.

My budget is quite limited (maybe not more than
$10,000), so I like to ask the opinion of you all
experienced homeshop machinest on what is the best
for the limited money. My requirement are:

1. Definitely have to have a mill, though having
a lathe together is a big plus.

2. I am living in a townhouse, have to place my
machines in my 1-car garage and I cannot do any
electrical wiring due to the HOA rules, so I have
to stick with the 110V outlet.

3. Most of the parts I'm going to do will not be big,
should fit well in 10"x4"x4" envelop. But
occationally will work on bigger workpiece.

4. I need to work on stainless steel and titanium
alloys (e.g. Ti-6V-4Al).

5. For 4 above, the machine must have good reapeatability
and not much backlash.

6. 4-axis CNC is a huge plus.

With all these constraint, I am considering one of the
followings:

1. Shoptask with CNC
2. MaxNC 15 CL2
3. TaigTools 2027
4. Any other good CNC-able table top models

Maybe 2, 3 or 4 above plus shoptask without CNC for
occational big work pieces.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

Jesse

Discussion Thread

Jesse Lim 2007-04-06 20:47:42 UTC Limited budget Home Shop? mikehenryil 2007-04-07 06:17:23 UTC Re: Limited budget Home Shop? cliffhcliff 2007-04-07 07:51:42 UTC Re: Limited budget Home Shop?