Re: Mill recommendations needed for new CNC Project

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Philip Burman"
<philip.burman@...> wrote:

>
> Assuming the man hours to put it all together and make it work are
> valued at commercial rates then a ready out of the box mill like a
> Tormach at USD6,800 might make more sense.

Thanks Phil. I've been trying to remember 'Tormach'.

Actually, I'd rather go the ready made route, my boss wants to save
some $$$. As to the reference to the 'man hours', I and my Machinists
are getting paid regardless if we are working on this or other projects.

By the way... thanks to Jon and others with your recommendations, I
have a nice list now. I like the smaller table-tops like the Tang, I'm
being pushed into something a little larger. I was looking at the
Grizzly G3102 or it's equivalent, however, I've read on the web a
couple of horror stories on issues with the G3102 and I'm wondering if
these problems have been dealt with by Grizzly. I'll dig a little deeper.

If I was to convert a Knee Mill. I'm thinking of controlling the Knee
movement and leaving the spindle alone. On manual machines, I do most
of any drilling operations using the Knee, except when I need to to a
lot of pecking.
Any thoughts on this?
I'd like to see some examples of how others have handled a Knee
conversion.

Tom M