Irving,

My health is not that bad (most of the time), but because CNC was going to be used to help with small production contracts, and my health now precludes me from taking on contracts with time deadlines (some days, or even weeks, I can't make it into the shop) then the need for CNC is no longer there.

I would have loved to be able to 'have a go', but it just isn't a viable economic exercise any more.

I have just landed my perfect contract, working to produce prototypes for a designer, no time deadlines, just get it to a working stage, roughly to his design or idea, with my own input to get around production problems.

Methinks that will do for me. On the days I can't get into the shop, I can troll around, sticking my nose in, attempting to help a few people on the mechanical side of things.

John