On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:54:27 -0500, you wrote:
>Dave, Steve was about right. For what we paid for the machine we would be >hard-pressed to gather the parts and materials (steel, rails, rack/pinions, >motors, servo drivers, power supply, 3kW water-cooled spindle, VFD, 10 hp >vacuum pump, vacuum table, way covers, etc.) Also, we just don't have the >time to spend building from scratch. Besides, the way we see it, we didn't >buy a turn-key system, we bought a mostly assembled "kit" (like most >Chinese equipment). Looks and sounds like a nice spec, and kit is the best way to treat it. Time is the one nearly everybody forgets, if it's a hobby and you have plenty of it "spare" it doesn't matter much. Commercially, it's a whole different ball game. Time is money. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users