New member - Peter from Sydney

[Lappa]

Plenty of time in Lockdown pending I fear - another 3 months I reckon

I’m looking at purchasing a CNC to keep me busy. You being from OZ, have you got any suggestions from our market?

[Kitwn]

Plenty of time in Lockdown pending I fear - another 3 months I reckon

I’m looking at purchasing a CNC to keep me busy. You being from OZ, have you got any suggestions from our market?

Things do look bad on the mainland, you have my sympathy. I'm in Tasmania which has been something of a safe haven so far, but it can only be a matter of time before Delta breaks out over here as well.

I know nothing about the market for commercially available machines in Australia. I designed and built my own machine from RHS steel using mechanical components bought online from China. Most of the machines you can buy for hobby money appear to be rather too flimsy for serious work. Unfortunately we do not have "JazzCNC Australia" as yet.

The first thing you need to do is decide what you want to make. How big a machine do you NEED (not the same as what you WANT) and what materials are you going to cut? If you just want to make decorative signs and carvings from wood then you can get away with something less substantial and precise than a machine that will accurately cut aluminium components that will fit closely together.

Kit