I went to the Grizzly tools site. I think I counted 38 mills. None of them CNC. KBC tools here in Canada has, in the this month's flier, 5 milling machines of various sizes and only one CNC milling machine with Acu-Rite control for $41K. KMS tools aas 4, none of them CNC. Don't know how many Sherline mills are sold with or without the CNC kit.
No idea how many used Bridgeport type machines are out there starting from say post war 1945 over 85 years? I believe CNC machines are a small fraction of those even if there were 10K MACH3 licenses sold. And of those licenses how many actually went to CNC routers. I have one with a valid MACH3 license but it's one built from scratch. CNC routers can't really operate with hand wheels so they are a different class of hardware. Judging by the number of $250 to $500 CNC controllers available through AliExpress I'd guess the number of non-CNC machines out there is still really high. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Elson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: February-17-20 8:51 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] RPI4 is pretty close to a decent machine control > solution... > > On 02/17/2020 11:37 AM, John Dammeyer wrote: > > I've been asking on other metal working groups about CNC > > and it's really amazing how few CNC installations there > > are out there. Many people are happy with a DRO and power > > feed on one or two axis. > And, no, you are looking in the wrong places. Numbers are > hard to come by, but there are well over 10K Mach 3 users > out there, I am told. That may refer only to PAID > licenses. I have no idea how many Smithy, Novakon and > Tormach machines are in use. I suspect their numbers dwarf > the LinuxCNC users. > > If you don't know of CNC Zone, you should check it out. > (But, I hate the slow response of their server.) > > Jon > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
