Hi Max,
I'd say that all you would need to suit your purpose is a small Taig, MaxNC, Harbor Freight or Homier mill that can be upgraded to CNC (Taig and MaxNC can be bough CNC ready from www.microproto.com and www.maxnc.com respectively). However, you will probably have to kiss your plan to make chassis away beacause the Taig has the largest x dimension but it only comes out to be 12". Once you have a mill, you could make your own gantry router (many people on CNC zone have these) that can cut the required dimensions for a chassis. If you bought CNC ready systems for either Taig or Maxnc you can expect to pay about $2100 with everything needed to support the mill. If you did it yourself (you can save about $500), you could also get some CAM software (expensive) and end up paying the same price
-Tei
-Tei
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