Please help me select a vendor for Hobby manual mill

[cropwell]

Most (not all) of these machines come from the Weiss factory in China. They are made to a price for some vendors, like Machine Mart, and others take a standard product with their own badging and livery. I have a Clarke CMD10 milling machine and a CL300 lathe, which I bought some years ago. I only rate them as toys, they need a lot of fettling to get them set up properly to do any serious work and they are certainly classified as hobby use only.

Amadeal, Axminster, Chester, Emvio and Warco are all basically the same machine ranges. My lathe is from Amadeal and I think you have to weigh up the supplier you choose on the basis of price and support.

On re-reading your post, if you plan to convert to CNC later - talk to Emvio, the main man there posts on this forum as Komatias, I believe he is doing CNC conversion kits for his mills.

Cheers,

Rob