03-13-2008, 11:03 PM
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Why does this mill strike me as being very similar to the usual gearhead mill sold by grizzly and outfitted with a few nicer items. If you are looking at this machine, why not check out the Industrial Hobbies CNC ready to-go mill which has considerably larger travels and is made specifically for IH to their specs. Ground ways, precision cut gears, servo driven, optical limits, coolant-tight sealed system. This machine seems no nicer than an IH and costs 4000 more. The IH also benefits from having a much larger headstock assembly which prevents that head tram problem CNCdragon mentioned.
I've never used any cnc system other than Mach3, which is windows based, but I run my little benchtop cnc mill every single day of the week using that system and its never let me down. I also was completely self taught and it was very easy to learn, and can do anything that a true cnc control system will do. At least anything I've ever seen. |
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