These days due to the meltdown in the economy, many large cnc shops are unfortunately going out of business and their machinery to auction (I mean real live industrial auctions - not ebay). If you watch the auction listings, you could very well get a killer production machine within your budget. I am pretty confident that you could get a high-end (but also highly used) production machine for less than $10,000 at auction right now.
But be sure to keep in mind that shipping, rigging, tooling and CAM software for these machines can cost a whole lot more than you may expect. |