I was tossing the idea around of buying a desktop mill which I would convert to CNC. I've seen the plans at http://www.stirlingsteele.com/millplans.html and those looked pretty nice. Has anyone bought and used these plans? Any comments? I see they also have a belt drive kit available too. Any comments on that?

I'm sure there are many other plans available for various mills to convert. I wanted to hear from some people that have experience using these mills and converting them to CNC to see if there certain mills and/or plans that are more favorable than others.

I'm looking at milling aluminum, plastics, wood, etc mostly, but would like to have the ability to cut light steel as well if I ever had the need. It would be ok if it cut steel at a slow rate; just as long as I could do it. I don't plan on using steel very much.

So if anyone has any information that they think would be valueable to me, please let me know. Including plans to stay away from, plans that are "excellent", etc.

Thanks,

-Jaime