Quote Originally Posted by Clive S View Post
It would be interesting to show how you can covert a mill to full cnc for £120 decent drives cost around £60 and motors £30 each etc
3 Axis TB6560 Driver Controller Board
Nema 23 Stepper Motors 1.26Nm/175oz-in 2.8A x3
24V 10A power supply
Cost £60 with delivery and VAT
Already spun up each axis separately (cutting 5mm acrylic/3mm Aluminium for a print bed) with 2:1 geared pulleys on Arduino Nema 17 42oz handled Z axis without problem on less than a 1/4 of proposed power.
Building 3d printers etc for years so plenty of stock parts laying around but to buy would be no more than £60, casings etc will be 5mm Acrylic I pay £0.37p for A3+ so well within budget.
Will be posting build, this machine is a mini 250 watt all I need, and as much as I would like to carry into a 1st floor flat and run without annoying neighbours.
Doesn't require anything larger from my experience its not for production operation its to produce occasional parts as such is adequately specced.