Thinking of jumping into CNC milling. How to start ?

[SparkyLabs]

Well the wabeco is 1.4KW versus 400W of the proxxon so I guess they meant it to be a beafier machine. The only pitty is that maximum spindle speed is 3000 rpm but then like I said high speed work is not a concern because I'm only prototyping and doing small batches.

[magicniner]

Well the wabeco is 1.4KW versus 400W of the proxxon so I guess they meant it to be a beafier machine. The only pitty is that maximum spindle speed is 3000 rpm.

There's a 2kW spindle option listed in that linked PDF that shows max rpm as 7500 which sounds much more useful.

[Clive S]

he only pitty is that maximum spindle speed is 3000 rpm but then like I said high speed work is not a concern because I'm only prototyping and doing small batches.

Yes but with small cutters you need higher rpm that is why we tend to use the Chinese 24K rpm spindles. The water cooled one are very quiet.

[magicniner]

My desktop CNC milling machine came with under 4krpm top speed from a DC motor which was very disappointing in use, I converted it to 3 phase which gives me up to 7krpm, for smaller work I built a simple speed increaser which gives me up to 30krpm but ideally buy something which covers as large a range of work as possible both speeds and envelope because jobs will come along which you could do "if only" ;-)