Do you know a similar cnc machina sold in EUROPE? Piranha Fx

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Arguably one of the most promising ones I've found so far is the Mini Muscle Mk1 which has quad rails on all three axis but can only move 310x310 mm. http://www.ukcnc.net/index.php/produ...uting-machine/ so not quite the size we were both looking for but definitely capable of machining ali. One downside for me is that the £1950 orice tag DOESN'T include VAT.

Col... still looking at others.

60x20 extrusions... that is for 3D printer, not for a CNC. I would definitely not call that "Mini Muscle". Mini is right, but where is the "muscle"? Also that Z is, even if it uses ball screw, it is still using unsupported curtain rods. I'd be very careful with that machine... I think it promises more than it delivers.

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60x20 extrusions... that is for 3D printer, not for a CNC. I would definitely not call that "Mini Muscle". Mini is right, but where is the "muscle"? Also that Z is, even if it uses ball screw, it is still using unsupported curtain rods. I'd be very careful with that machine... I think it promises more than it delivers.

I think you'll find that the only unsupported rais it has are on the Z axis, but even having siad that there are FOUR of them spaced a good distance apart and held between FOUR X axis colums which in turn run on yet another FOUR supported rails.

Col.

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I think you'll find that the only unsupported rais it has are on the Z axis, but even having siad that there are FOUR of them spaced a good distance apart and held between FOUR X axis colums which in turn run on yet another FOUR supported rails.

Col.

Yes, that's what I am saying...

"Also that Z is, even if it uses ball screw, it is still using unsupported curtain rods."

Yes, four of them, but still. Also, the rest are pretty weak design, 12mm screws and 12mm supported rods that's not a lot at all. Add to that the pretty weak 60x20 extrusions... and it is nowhere near what I'd call "muscle".

It also looks like you'd have huge problems fitting that with a real spindle, other than the Kress, or possibly a tiny Dremel.