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Picked out a few over the last year, in the attached list below.
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The plan was never to pay cash up front for a new machine...

The Kickstarter just ended a few minutes ago. 28 days,

116 backers pledged $187,974 to help bring this project to life.

So of those, there are 40 full SwissMak Mill-Turn centers to build, and...

Hey thanks to everyone who's been supportive so far! It's at $160,079 right now, 14 hours left. Hopefully there isn't a huge wave of people pulling out because of nervousness.

skrubol,

I...

Hey oxomoxo,

The link below is to the original thread from 2015. It started out more as a hobby toy curiosity thing just to see if I could make anything useful with it. I actually have a lot more...

Yeah, for me the disappointing part is seeing people who refuse to believe it can cut metal even after watching the video. The video clearly shows it cutting delrin, 2 aluminum alloys, brass, and...

Travis,

Since this is a sliding headstock machine, the tailstock must follow at a constant distance when a part is between centers (or gripped by the subspindle and main spindle at the same time)....

Yeah even with 30 taper machines running mass production (Speedios, Robodrills) people are advised not to take really heavy cuts, but rather take faster, lighter ones. I know Frank Mari at Maritool...

The_chip_troll, the leadscrew on the production machine will be coated with either DLC or WS2 for a coefficient of friction below 0.1. The long nut increases load capacity, rigidity, and slows the...

Launched the Kickstarter at 12 noon USA West Coast time, April 20th 2018.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1260359869/swissmak-the-mill-turn-center-for-your-machine-sho

skrubol, the boxways and leadscrew nuts on this machine don't need grease or oil at all. They run fine completely dry. Metal on metal contact needs lubrication but slippery plastics like acetal work...

Yeah within the hobbyist DIY CNC builders, everyone uses cheap ballscrews and cheap linear rails. If I were building a cheap router to cut plywood, I would definitely go with these. They have almost...

Doesn't come with a stand, it just sits on any big table or desk. A stand won't actually provide any rigidity unless it's a part of the machine structure.As shown in this thread, I just set the...

To address the last few comments...

That pricing for Dura-bar seems outrageous. The shipping would probably bring it to ~700 dollars. Just for the machine base! I spent just over 200 dollars for...

Pariel,

In my last post I attached a GIF of it cutting cast iron, although I don't know the exact grade (it wasn't a soft grade though). That was just over 25 inches per minute, axial depth of cut...

I'm actually a few hundred miles from the machine right now, and I will be for a while. I did a couple full part videos for the first prototype but they didn't get many views, I attributed that to...

No the GIFs actually make this machine look smaller than it is. As it sits on the table, this thing is just under 6 feet long from left to right, 5 feet deep front to back, and just over 3 feet tall....

Some newer Swiss machines have the option to be a "chucker", where there is no guide bushing at all. This is one of those machines. I do have a design for a guide bushing block on this machine, but I...

Sadly the only boring bars I have right now are those cheap little Chinese brazed carbide box of 9 types things, complete junk. They don't even have a relief angle. Definitely can't take any heavy...

jgwentworth and Hackish,

I've tested several 3d printer boards; Smoothieboard with 5 steppers, Azteeg x3 pro with 8 steppers, and the production version machine will most likely use the Duet board...

Arrrrrg I just typed out a 10 paragraph post addressing all of your questions and comments in detail, only to have it deleted because this website glitched when I was uploading a photo of stuff. It...

Yes Mountaindew, the production version will have a hard anodized PTFE surface on all the boxways. Everything else will be color anodized, although I haven't finalized the color scheme yet. The...

To answer your questions:

1) All parts are made from aluminum ?
Nope. The spindles, shafts, and hardware parts are all steel. The big structural parts are solid aluminum.

2) Can u process...

Here's the first bit of progress from last July. Let me know if you'd rather have the build thread pictures as GIFs or still images.
http://forum.seemecnc.com/download/file.php?id=15181&mode=view...

Hey everyone! I haven't posted here in 4 years, but I have something that I think you'll find interesting. I built a Swiss type CNC mill-turn center. This was a DIY project, 2k budget. What you see...

Hi everyone,

This is my first post on these forums but I've been creeping on you guys for several years. I have a decent amount of machining experience, more so with CNC than manual machines.
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