Hobby milling machine - with a small budget

[Siress]

found it:

http://img4.photobucket.com/albums/0...N/bb38996e.jpg

[Hobbiest]

I had an idea a while ago about a mill, or a lathe, that uses a spindle and hub from a car. That way you get tapered roller bearings, and already machined shaft and bearing races. Wouldn't be able to put a spindle bor in the thing though. Had another idea about using the bottom of an engine block, or two connecting rods as the journals for a lathe or mill, and simply having a machine shop turn down a piece of heavy pipe for the spindle itself. That would be the only thing that would have to be done on a lathe.

[dcscott]

Hi from England,
I have been looking at Chinese mills and all the components needed to set up a cnc mill, this comes to £ 800 plus £800 which is a bit too much. Where I work has large lumps of metal of bright drawn, so I have been drawing out some ideas on a minimum machining mill all from sections very similar to Dave Gingerys but without all the castings.
David. in Devon.England.