Dropped Lulu off at her house this morning and ran some errands. There was a post in the Bellingham Craigslist for a small Chinese mill that had been converted to CNC - Computer Numeric Control but the project had never been finished and the guy needed to sell what he had done.
Looked at it this evening and was very pleasantly surprised with the quality of work and components. Needless to say, it is sitting in the bed of my truck and I will be moving it to my shop tomorrow.
None of the electrical work has been done which is great as I want to do a solid job with the correct wiring. It is a small mill but will be perfect to 'bootstrap' converting my large mill to CNC - the motor mounts, belt drives, etc... can now be made on the small mill instead of having to fabricate them by hand or manually chew them out on the big mill. CNC allows for work that is 100% reproducible as long as you stay within the operating parameters of the specific machine.
It will also be nice for making knife handles and doing engraving on knife blades.
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