JAZZ Thank you for your advice...

My plan in to try and raise some funds with my current machine (I have some jobs cutting foam patens for castings) and then move onto a more robust reliable machine that will happily cut aluminum.

In your experience do you think that a budget of £1000 is realistic for roughly a 800mm x 500mm x 200mm machine?? I understand this is a hard question as it all depends on the quality off the parts you buy, but for arguments sake say somewhere in the middle.

With regards to the spindle I have seen the water cooled type and I am considering buying one, do you think that something like this would be ok for cutting aluminum? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WATER-COOL...item20c0103824

Joe