Thanks, Dean. That is a mighty generous offer and one I would very much like to, at some point in the near future, take you up on.

Another question I have, is about how people who don't have industrial work units usually house these machines? Would you say a purpose built "shed" in the garden would be suitable for something like this or are these types of machines better suited to a heated/climate controlled work area?

Finally, if a well built shed is capable of housing a CNC machine, what sort of shed size would you need to house say, a 1x1m machine which would allow you ample size to move around and operate the machine safely?

Most of my 6m x 6m garage space is taken by other (not most efficiently placed) equipment but if I did rearrange it to eek the most of the space out of it, i may just be able to fit a machine in there.

Tom.