Newbie, build or buy

**Russjp** · 27-05-2021

Originally Posted by Clive S

Russ You might be lucky. But I would post some pics or maybe a link to it. its a minefield out there.

Thanks.

I've got no pics at the moment. Its a friend of a friend who's offered it to me. He bought it new 2 years ago, says he's had no problems with it but has had to downsize premises due to the lockdowns. I've not seen it yet as its a 4 hour drive away. All I know so far is single phase, has a vacuum bed, runs with nc studio and he added a 4.5kw water cooled spindle.
I've no real experience with a large cnc, just my desktop OX using vcarve Pro.
I might try to find time to get down there to have a look but, apart from seeing it running, I'm not sure what I need to be looking for!

**handles** · 27-05-2021

Originally Posted by Russjp

Thanks.

I've got no pics at the moment. Its a friend of a friend who's offered it to me. He bought it new 2 years ago, says he's had no problems with it but has had to downsize premises due to the lockdowns.

That is one of the reasons I built mine to be configurable, and with rack and pinion . I have a 1.6m wide gantry X axis by 1m Y axis. I can extend it along the Y another 2m simply adding more rack and linear rail to another ally extrusion table and bolting them together.
I haven't needed to do that as I just use my assembly table as an extension, which is the same height, and just slide full sheets along onto the CNC bed.