Totally worth it in my opinion... I would be afraid of getting a used machine that required major service and be stuck requiring thousands beyond my budget. Obviously that can and to some extent has occurred here with the unforeseen inspection fees during import and the control issue, but if I was seriously pressed to have it up and running I could have used Mach3 very easily as I use my smaller CNC bench mill now. The servos accept pulse direction and are closed to themselves so would not be as feature rich and probably wouldn't have messed with the ATC, but would have had a machine to make parts while I worked out Linux cnc.
The overall quality is good, not great, but if you pull the shirts of any machine and really look under the paint you'll find castings are always prettied up.. I would say the pretty want a high priority for this Maine builder, but it's also at a very acceptable level in my opinion. Only a few things stand out they could have and should have done a better job on.. The enclosure should not have shelves for chips to collect on, a vertical Sean would have been easy and better! The other that was most annoying to me was because it was a first machine and customized, they missed machining the pockets on the table where the bolts for the linear cars are, so the surface is flat but as cast.. This would have been machined as it's a torqued fastener and should have an even head load.
Current machines don't have this issue as the bolts go through the table and into the cars and those holes are milled/bored. So just an insurance on mine. The table surface is impeccable, however the T slots leave allot to be desired and could have had at least a finish pass run on the vertical slot faces, they are rough and a bit tight to the t nuts. Nothing a few minutes with a stone and some emry cloth won't fix.
As far as the rest of the fit and finish, I was impressed. The control cabinet is very tidy and clean, the wiring inside was done very well. The cable routing outside the cabinet could use some tlc and will get it. The door panels on the back are sheet metal and I added some foam strips to keep them from rattling, not required but would be nice if they used them.
All in all nothing that would do me from doing it again.. but if probably go with a control already up and running and dialed in. Would have saved allot of headache and delay!
As for the tooling, I'm impressed with how nice it is but won't have any real experience until I use them.. for $10 a holder... If day they are fantastic!
The name of the company is tool tree.. it is a Chinese company we address is here:
SiShui Teli Tool Co., Ltd
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