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Thanks for the responses guys, I'll check both of those out

I'm currently shopping for my first CNC mill. It'd be used in my garage shop for my hobby/side hustle knife production. Many of my parts will be steels typically found in knifemaking as well as some...

I'm currently shopping for my first CNC mill. It'd be used in my garage shop for my hobby/side hustle knife production. Many of my parts will be steels typically found in knifemaking as well as some...

The previous owner sent me a couple videos of it running a few months ago. This seems promising

Running the spindle:

https://youtu.be/dK4AA6OV3QU

Running the axis:
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Thanks again for all the input everyone.

I'm still up in the air about it. Since it's my first CNC mill I'm really learning a lot. The work area on this one is very hard to pass up.

I need to...

Looking back at my photos and I see pack of fuses and a couple fuses in the bottom of the electrical cabinet. It also appears that the tan fuse holder on the left end of the DIN rail is empty. This...

Sorry some of the photos are sideways.

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Thanks again for the input mklotz70 and fc60!


I was actually able to get out there today and take a look at it. It's going to be a project but maybe not too bad.

I got some background from...

That's what I'm thinking. I can certainly spring for a license of Mach 3 but I might decide to go the Acorn route right out of the gate if it needs any new controller hardware. PCs I have a plethora...

Nice! I'm pretty well versed in Fusion on the CAD side, CAM is going to be a new adventure for me but I'm figuring it out. I assume this one is being driven from Mach 3, that's one of the things I've...

Great! Thank you for the insight. I'll go check out your videos for more info.

I'm currently shopping for my first CNC mill. This is for hobby use and possibly some light commercial runs (I'm a hobbyist knifemaker). I'm doing my due diligence on the various options. I've seen...