John's Alu Profile build

[Mister Mills]

Bigger machine needs a lot more space to be usable. This is my downfall. I may well downsize her and go for a 4 or 5 axis design. I'm getting the Itch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

[Evengravy]

Bigger machine needs a lot more space to be usable. This is my downfall. I may well downsize her and go for a 4 or 5 axis design. I'm getting the Itch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

I've had a smaller machine than mine for quite a few years, with a cutting footprint of roughly 500 x 380mm and have not found that to be too limiting generally speaking, so didn't want to go too large. If I were to go 8x4 I think I'd go vertical like Jazz's to save space and help with chip clearing. I want to leave some room in my workshop for some other bits too. I acquired an old CNC lathe (EMCO) that I'm upgrading and I'd like to build a small plasma table at some point (maybe 2x4). We'll get this one done firstly anyway.

A rotary axis would be great, if you could pull off a 5 axis design I'd be very interested to see that come together.