Quote Originally Posted by totally useless View Post
once again jazz,
thanks for your reply. what sort of money would you guess would buy me a cnc router that would be good enough?
thanks
peter
Well very hard to answer that because there are many variables. If your talking about buying a Machine in the 6040 size then your into 2K+ for anything like decent quality.
If on the other hand your going to try building your own then 2K will get you a Very Very nice machine that would be 3-4K if you bought it from a company.
Your original budget of £1250 would build a very capable small machine with some careful purchasing.

If you have some tools and mechanical knowledge then it's not difficult building a machine, the electronics are not difficult and with some hand holding they are easily do-able for even those with limited knowledge.
I will gladly help you regards info on what to buy and where, which is often the hard part for new builders. IF you do fancy having a crack then I'll give you my phone number so you have someone to turn too for advise. I've done this for many people and helped people with absolutley no knowledge of electrics build very nice CNC machines.