OK, i have decided to open Pandora's box here!

Having had private conversations and online conversations, I am still perplexed at the vast amount of 'seemingly' extremely low quality machines, sold at high end prices that are not fit for purpose?

So, all of these highly successful businesses are selling their kits online to customers across the globe and guess what, they keep selling them. Users are in the main, happy with their purchase, making their little signs and doing what they do.

If the machines were so bad - the online world would not allow this, constant bad reviews and ratings stop poor businesses from operating.

Have you seen all those Youtube builds!! YES!

Have you seen all those Youtube builds complaining of inferior kit NO!

These designs obviously work for the type of things most users want from their home cnc and the few hours per week that they use their machines for.

Then you get the more serious hobbyist that wants to beef up their machine to cut some aluminium plate and more bespoke tweaks and designs are made.

Last you have commercial operators, that are running their machines, in some cases 365 & 24/7.

Huge amounts of investment have been made into these machines and they are deigned and built to work in a commercial environment.

I smiled with amusement when i have read the other threads and any time someone mentions an Openbuild type of machine, it is either immediately put down or not responded to.

Therefore (in my view) the site has become myopic and does not serve the whole cnc community, which is a great shame.

There are obviously some very talented people on this site with multiple skill sets that are a great asset to the community.

Not everyone wants a 1500kg behemoth CNC machine sat in their shed running Lynux and running complex calculations to make a nice valentine's sign for their partner.

Should the site not welcome everyone and help them with their build irrespective of its make or type and encourage people to tweak small elements to improve on basic designs?

WoodKnot