Where's the cheapest place to buy a Kress 1050?

[Jonathan]

Your youtube videos show you holding parts while being routed and about to break free from the surrounding material, do you call that safe ?

I agree that's not the best of ideas - I don't think I'm the only person on youtube guilty of that, though that's no reason to do it. I was careful in that case not to put my fingers close to the cutter. I made sure the last cut was very light and plenty of clearance so little chance of anything unexpected. Generally I do put tabs on the parts which are routed out at the end to avoid that, or in the case of PCBs stick them down with double sided tape. On the milling machine I've put a bolt through the part in the past to stop it escaping.

It was made from 316 stainless steel (not nice stuff to machine, work hardens), though I'll admit that was mainly because that's what I had at the time. I made it 8mm as that's the biggest collet the router can take. The nut and collet are separate parts on my router, so it would be tricky to make a mount like yours.


The safety things I won't have much idea is where there's a difference between manual and CNC machines since we only had a very small CNC router/engraver at school...