Quote Originally Posted by Clive S View Post
Welcome to the forum Phil. The budget you have quoted should get you a nice machine. There is a guy on here that builds them to order (Dean Jazzcnc) I think there are a few vids on here somewhere of his machines.

The water cooled spindles are much quieter than the air cooled. One of the cons for the air-cooled are that the fan slows down with the speed and therefore does not cool the spindle.
Unless you get an air cooled spindle with an extra fan built on top something like this

https://www.ebay.at/itm/253928489328

Cheers
Andrew