It all depends on your system and what you want to do. I have found a Harbor Freight (cheep Chinese) laminate router an inexpensive solution for my small (400x400x100mm) gantry router.
At $20 to $30 (depending on sales) it is cheap enough to have a spare and replace if a problem. Cheap enough to bury one every year or two. I do mostly small things in wood (< 100x100x5). Some Al, plastic and soapstone. The lack of frame rigidity is the primary source of errors. I have not found an 1/8 collet for it, but a 1/4 to 1/8 collet sleeve seems to work ok. Others have found other small routers or die grinders a solution. I would consider a die grinder if I were changing the mounting design. standard 1/8 collets are available for these. If I were doing a lot more work with it I would also consider a quieter, more small expensive router. The Harbor Freight one is noisy for its size. Craig Enumclaw, WA USA Just North of Mt. Raineer. On 12/12/2011 11:39 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > I have been looking at an air spindle that goes for about $1800. The > machinist at work has one, and he gets a lot of work out of it. Definitely > 20 Dremels worth of work so far. > > I have some Moore powered spindles that I would like to use, but the > technical side is beyond me right now. > Eric > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:10 PM,<kqt4a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I read a lot on this list about large spindles but what about small >> What is the spindle of choice for 1/8" bits and smaller >> A Dremel does not last very long >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 >> Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for >> developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it >> provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. >> Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 > Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for > developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it > provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. > Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
