Quote Originally Posted by deisel View Post
hello,welcome to the site.
i was in the same boat for a time,i liked the idea of building a vertical mill but settled on knocking up a fixed gantry mill,see image ,im fairly happy with it, its sole jobs for plastics and aluminium and it does what i want.
if i were fixed on a vertical mill now id be inclined to just convert one to cnc
I like that design :-) - you say you are "fairly happy" with it - what problems do you have and what changes would you make if you were doing it again?