so, as some of you who followed my other machine design thread know, im trying to build a nice small machine. for me.
that thread got off track alot, the machine kept growing and growing as people put their 2 cents in. it also kept getting more expensive. ive not scrapped those ideas, ive split them into different machines and poke at the designs now and then trying to get them into an affordable config (afordable to build the prototypes).
in the meantime, ive set back to building that machine "i want". i have arrived at a compromise i think. i will be using the weiss WMD16V as my base. im probably going to order it in a week, and ill be designing the cnc retrofit for it while i wait (takes a few months to ship from china aparently).
there is a second motive to this machine build though. that is to find a suitible replacement for the "KX1" sized machine. this includes the novakon nm-070, smithy 516, sieg kx1, etc. these machine are "ok", but dont really fit the market well. they are too expensive for the features. basically, people see the "KX3" sized model, for a minimal upcharge, and just decide its better value - and it is!
but i know theres still many people like me that cant have a kx3. i want a small machine, but i want one thats got accuracy and performance and the kx1 isnt terrible, but it could be alot better. my thoughts are, if its basically going to cost the same as the bigger machine, it should be able to do something the big one cant (besides fit in a cubboard).
so here we are.
ill post more ideas in a bit.