biomed_eng
10-09-2006, 12:53 AM
In your home shop:
Do you have a mill, router or both?
If you care to comment, please explain why.
Do you have a mill, router or both?
If you care to comment, please explain why.
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View Full Version : Home Shop: Mill, Router or both? biomed_eng 10-09-2006, 12:53 AM In your home shop: Do you have a mill, router or both? If you care to comment, please explain why. biomed_eng 10-09-2006, 12:59 AM Right now I have neither at my home. I am planning on getting my retrofitted Bridgeport Series 1 to my home in a couple months. I do want a custom built router and I will use my mill to make parts for the router. The router will cut large parts out of foam/renshape/wood, while the mill will do the metal parts. SyilAmerica 10-09-2006, 11:15 PM Most routers are not rigid enough to handle metals like a mill. Geetar-ist 10-10-2006, 12:52 PM I have several routers, only drwback is that as yet... none of them are CNC ;) Manual operation only ! Kipper 10-10-2006, 04:43 PM I'm in the middle of converting my mill and so far just have the Y axis under PC control....and it's way better than winding the handle :D Once the mill is finished then it can make the router...Only problem I see is always wanting to make things better :shrug: Drakkn 10-14-2006, 02:57 PM I have several hand held routers but no cnc,however I will be building my own soon as I have the solsylva plans Loonscall 10-16-2006, 03:30 PM I have a cnc router (camtech Z7), but am having a hard time getting things running. Looking to do 3d relief work. Any suggestions are welcome thkoutsidthebox 12-15-2006, 09:18 AM Im building my first cnc wood router at the moment. No mill. Because the wood router is suitable for what I want to do and AFIK a mill is not. Carving large flat areas, up to 8'x8'. Maybe someday I will get a mill aswell but I dont see a need for one at the moment. |