[email protected] wrote: > I am lookin at http://www.smithy.com/midas/pricing/xl > I am a machinist virgin so it will be my first > It will be strickly for hobby and entertainment > Is there anyone with an opinion :) > > Arrgh! A 3-in-1 machine. We have one at work, it is a very mediocre lathe and a horrible mill. The Smithy does have the ability to elevate the head, which ours doesn't, but still not very good at all.
Get an X2 or X3-style machine for a mill, it has a rectangular dovetail column, so the head has a lot of vertical range without loss of the X-Y alignment. See http://pico-systems.com/minimill.html for some ideas on the retrofit. The rack and pinion Z axis is no good for CNC, but the machine can be converted for a vertical leadscrew without great effort. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
