From a newbie to CNC but not buying equipment from China, must admit to being very pleased so far with my 3040.

Bit like dealing with clients , its a case of expectation management, did a lot of reading of threads here and on cnczone and watching youtube videos.

So before it arrived , had some expectation of shipping damage, seller obviously learning that one , have enough polythene foam to practice foam cutting till next decade.

Aware that the drive electronics are almost disposable, air cooled spindle drive is basic and the stepper drives are apparently suicidal.

Spindle is a `refurb` and may last forever or till next week.

Previous experience of Chinese vendors has to be honest been very good, delivery often faster than a UK based supplier and Chinese sense of honour has meant they have looked after problems well, dealt with more shady Euro vendors than Chinese ones, but very interested to see how poster with ill spindle is looked after.

With a burning interest in learning more about CAM and a limited budget, Chinese vendors have made starting out possible for me. Alternatives at the sub 1000 GBP level would have been a secondhand Roland PNC engraver, really don`t think they will cut alloy no matter how much time have to wait ;-)

Interest , at least intially, is what can it make rather than how it is made, shortage of time, skills and tooling made self build first off not even worth considering.

Don`t think these machines are taking work away from manufacturers or operators of bigger machines either, quite the opposite, ability to develop and test prototype and very short run parts myself means can find what will work in the market for me, when need more than proto or very short runs will be popping up in the RFQ section looking for someone with a bigger machine to make them.

Orginally started posting to say the connectors used on the Yoo CNC boxes are CB microphone connectors;

http://www.thunderpole.co.uk/plugs+c...-mic-plugs.htm

Cheers
Adam