What the hell do I need ?? (humourous replies expected :-) )

[Greeny]

Hi Greeny
I have seen the glass equipment and yes, it is major engineering, saw a fantastic machine that did brilliant cutting at a Glassex show, a huge beast and at a very reasonable price of 120,000 Euros lol.

Alan

Was it an Intermac? The company I work for has 2 Intermac master grooves (brilliant cutters), an Intermac master edge, and a bottero edge. I don't run them any more, (but can get involved if they break!) They are big beasts, 3000 x 1500, 8kw spindles,auto tool change, the whole enchillada!! Tempremental buggers though! Italian.
The Bottero is a great machine, but you pay for quality.

I know your looking for a smaller machine and I don't mean to be negative, but water cooling and very abrasive swarf/grit take a big toll on the machines, I imagine stone carving will be very similar. Even though granite and marble are slightly softer than glass, the grit gets everywhere and seems to wear everything prematurely. Be very careful any machine you look at will go the distance. If poss ask to visit someone who's had one for a while. Also ask about tooling costs. Diamond tooling is darn expensive.
On the plus side I imagine there's decent money in custom stone carving though

Good luck.

[EddyCurrent]

alboy, I expect you saw this but just in case;

CNC router engraver | eBay

[alboy]

Hi Eddycurrent

No I hadn't seen that one and i spent ages looking on ebay yesterday lol. It seems a bit light at 20kg but I have come across the type that you can move around and place on top of larger slabs. I have emailed the seller. Will let you know.

Cheers

Al

[alboy]

Received email from the seller, unwilling to state the manufacturer, other than saying he bought it from Slovakia. price gone up to £2000 as he says he upgraded the machine by making it wider, now 1000mm wide as opposed to 570 before
why would you go to the expense of making the machine twice as wide while you have it up for auction?

Also like pulling teeth trying to get answers to all my questions.

hmmmmmmmm

[EddyCurrent]

Sounds weird that he's selling something different to his auction price and description.
If you wanted something similar I'm sure it would not take a lot of building (thanks to the info and members on this forum) but they would not let you build it like that

another
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Router...item27d79aff3c