My first ever built CNC router.

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The rails and ball-screws are ok-ish thou they are the budget range but still better than round rail so your ok there.
However the drives and motors you need to dump as they will cripple the machine, esp if using parallel port.

Thank you for the reply JazzCnc. Fortune paid on me with the steppers and drivers as after a mix up I got my money back and for some reason they also delivered them anyway. What would be your recommendation of Steppers and drivers (budget wise)? Currently I'm looking at the Nema 23, 2.2NM (8 wire) ones from CNC4YOU with the CW5045 stepper drivers with a 48v power supply.

I'm pretty happy with the spindle and got it wired up to the VFD and it works great so far. I chose air over water cooled as I prefer the convenience of them and this machine will probably end up travelling with me when I work at different workshops.

advise is spend a little more and buy a decent ethernet motion controller like UC300 or AXBB because parallel port is slow and frustrating. The motion controller is the heart of the machine so it needs to be good.

I looked up your suggestions of controllers and will take them into consideration, more so the UC300 as the AXBB is going over my budget. I see alot of Chinese ethernet controllers - would they be any good for budget reasons? Currently I have an old laptop given to me by a friend with a parallel port so I'm planning on installing Linux CNC just to get me going for now.

Thanks
Tim