Hi all,

I've been looking at changing my manual mill for a Bridgeport Interact. They come up for sale quite often in the UK and are quite cheap to buy. I'm just trying to find out a bit more about them before I sell my old mill and find I've made a mistake. I want the Interact for machining aluminium plate and drilling / tapping holes from steel I'll cut on my cnc plasma. I'm just wondering if I'll still be able to do all the things I do on my manual mill, because most of it tends to be touchy feely engineering. Is there any manual override as such for on the fly cutting? I'm hoping that if I find the right machine I'll convert it to mach3 eventually. Also, I should add that I've never used a cnc milling machine before, so be gentle

Any advice would be helpfull.

Adam.