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Originally Posted by blades Here's a turn-key converted X2 mill, but it's priced @ a rather hefty $3500 (not worth it, imho) http://www.syilamerica.com/product_X2.asp

There's 2 prices on that linked page. The $2395 price would be a more fair comparison to other desktop solutions.


cwm9
Here's a bit more reading material.
http://www.tormach.com/FAQs.html
Page down to their reasoning for choosing steppers. The meat is in the pdf document. Some of what's there is sales talk but there's some useful info as well.

Not suggesting a Tormach, you just sharing some info. Although a Tormach would be a lovely bit of overkill