Quote Originally Posted by irving2008 View Post
My take on that would be that if the business takes off it'll quickly justify the bigger machine in its own right. That doesn't mean the smaller machine is redundant, far from it; anyone here that runs a machine shop (Jazz, JohnS, etc) knows that having more than one machine allows for multiple jobs at once...or backup in an emergency.

At a 100/week, thats 20 a day... I dont know the complexity but I'm guessing 15min or so per job, thats 5 hours run time a day. That's not insubstantial and you need to consider that in the size/performance of the machine. If you weren't CNCing them what's your plan B?
100 a week may be slightly ambitious! i think a more realistic figure would be 5-10 a day. my plan B is to buy in the letter, which i really dont want to do, so its plan A or plan A really, its something i have wanted from the beginiging but have been fortunate to get up and running and accumalatea nice profit by getting them 'for free' only i am restricted to how many as he is meant to be working!

at the moment i am using the letters for keepsake boxes, so every box is one letter, i am currently doing 10-20 boxes a week, but with a cnc i would do more letters as i could expand with the things i could do, eg decroative letters, wooden bunting, ect ect....i hope this makes sense :)