Anyone with a TAIG-based mill in the Birmingham/Worcester area?

[robinc]

Ah.. a biscuit fan! John, I'm jealous of all your machines and the space required to house them, even if there is no floor space left! I might have to pop up to Mansfield in the next couple of weeks. Would it be okay to pop by if I do? It'd probably be late afternoon on a weekday though.

Fragger, thanks for the link. I'll check it out but if anything, I'd like a smaller machine than the TAIG. The only reason for going for something TAIG-sized is to get the rigidity to be able to cope well with harder materials occasionally.

[Jonathan]

i would say there is little in the rigidity of the two machines. The x1 can mill steel and hard materials as i have done it.

Almost any machine can cut steel and hard materials ... it's just (within reason) a matter of how fast you want to cut it. I've cut steel and Titatium with my CNC router, just takes a while.

Robin: looks like I'm also quite near to you... I'm near Loughborough.

Ah.. a biscuit fan! John, I'm jealous of all your machines and the space required to house them, even if there is no floor space left! I might have to pop up to Mansfield in the next couple of weeks. Would it be okay to pop by if I do? It'd probably be late afternoon on a weekday though.

Make sure you bring hobnobs...apparently it's a wise move.

[robinc]

Fragger, I'm pretty much convinced that both the TAIG and the X1L would cut hard materials - as Jonathan suggests they should. I meant that the only reason I'm not going for something even smaller than the TAIG is that such a machine would struggle to cut harder materials. The Sherline would fit much better in the space I have available but a skilled Sherline owner has told me he struggled to cut stainless with it, even with low rates of material removal. Perhaps not surprising when you look at a side by side comparison:

http://www.deepgroove1.com/tagsherli...comparison.htm