Busy Bees version of the mini-mill is $100 more than harbor freight.. and $600 is still twice as much as micro-mill. the proxxon is a good little guy but 2in y travel is almost useless, my eagle license is 100x80mm so thats my minimum travel required.
Im starting to get worried, I was only planning on spending $1000 on this project -bits, tools, material. After the cnc kit, mill, a-frame, concrete, counterweight I have $250 to improve accuracy. if I need to spend over $400 to get it within x2 accuracy I might as well just buy that. The grizzly G8689 is the x2 and $523 but that ballskrew kit is $250 so I wont have a full cnc untill Sept by the earliest.
The upside of the x1 is I could have it running by end of the month, no more sending my pcb's off to china to get manufactured for $40/pop. Do you think resale would be decent enough, would you guys pay $500 for the x2 with 305oz/in hobbycnc when I want to upgrade like next year? |