On 08/10/2015 06:50 PM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a new mill for the company I work for. I am looking for > something that I can run with linuxcnc and is reasonably stiff. This is for > simple prototyping work and would be ideal if it could be used in a manual > mode as well as cnc driven. No need for things like tool turrets or > anything like that. We are not looking for a coolant system. We would > consider new or very well maintained used. I am not looking for a project. > > The biggest thing to avoid is a round column. You lose your X-Y alignment every time you need to elevate the head. I don't know if the "minimill" fits your working volume requirements, but at least it has a dovetail Z slide.
See http://pico-systems.com/minimill.html for some pics of my retrofit of one. I use my Bridgeport retrofit for "real" work, but occasionally use the minimill for actual machining. I got the minimill to take to shows, but also use it as a test bed for oddball experiments. It was my first machine to do rigid tapping on, for instance. For off the shelf machines, I'm pretty sure Novakon, Tormach and Smithy can all deliver machines with LinuxCNC. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
