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To be clear ...what I'm saying is that not everyone wants to mill steel, or even mill aluminium ( plenty of folk just want to mill acrylic, wood or make pcbs etc.)

Also not everyone wants to make...

My first machine was self built from scrap printer parts (& thin scaffolding type piping would you believe!) - unsurprisingly, it sucked, but it could at least do simple through hole pcbs.

my next...

Whilst rolling you're own is interesting (indeed, a rite of passage around these parts!) & you'll certainly end up with the most suitable machine, it'll likely consume you (as it tends to do with...

Well asbo's spindle arrived in the post today...as expected the bracket mount holes didn't align with my machine's Z axis, so an adapter/ bracket was quickly knocked up & it's all mounted now.
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Since the 300w spindles are very common on CNC machines, I reckon there'd be internet 'mob outcry' if all these spindles had runout like the video I linked to earlier (so I can only assume his had...

yes & no...it goes to show that there are some Chinese 300W spindles out there that have continuity & others that don't - thanks for checking though!

These ones on ali express (which seems to be a...

Personally I'd have gone with a resistor for each LED (to get their respective brightnesses balanced right)...therefore I'd connect the common anode direct to 5V & then place a current limiting...

Just be careful with the naming/packages ....the program I was speaking of earlier is called CNC-USB, rather confusingly I believe there's also a product out there called USB-CNC...I know zilch...

USB-CNC & MAch3, sort of fulfill the same purpose....which is converting CAM etc generated g-code to stepper movement....they just approach it in different ways.

With Mach3 you buy the software &...

Well, if you place any financial value on your own tiime, I'd say I wasted the most money on leadscrews - being a cheapskate (who was inspired by the easy cnc mill seen on youtube), I went with...