axminster mills

[irving2008]

He means a machine with approx 300 or 400mm working envelope and capable of cutting aluminium..

Rich wants to build from a plan but there's nothing directly suitable around (I've not found anything either) so he's looking at the option of CNC'ing an existing mill... but TBH Rich, on your proposed budget the sort of mills you could get will be pretty poor.... they'll need a lot of work to get them up to the standard needed...

[richb77]

Thanks for the info guys.

I did think the backlash would be pretty bad on a sub £800 machine. Just a thought though ;)

I did indeed mean a machine with a bed 300 to 400mm.

I have been doing some scrounging and plan reading. I think i will end up trying to find the time to create my own machine. The frame is the easy part, fixtures and fittings is the tricky bit. I thought initially of using a dremmel for the head....Now beginning to think it wont be man enough.