[biomed_eng]

In your home shop:

Do you have a mill, router or both?

If you care to comment, please explain why.

[biomed_eng]

Right now I have neither at my home. I am planning on getting my retrofitted Bridgeport Series 1 to my home in a couple months.

I do want a custom built router and I will use my mill to make parts for the router.

The router will cut large parts out of foam/renshape/wood, while the mill will do the metal parts.

[SyilAmerica]

Most routers are not rigid enough to handle metals like a mill.

[Geetar-ist]

I have several routers, only drwback is that as yet... none of them are CNC

Manual operation only !

[Kipper]

I'm in the middle of converting my mill and so far just have the Y axis under PC control....and it's way better than winding the handle Once the mill is finished then it can make the router...Only problem I see is always wanting to make things better :shrug:

[Drakkn]

I have several hand held routers but no cnc,however I will be building my own soon as I have the solsylva plans

[Loonscall]

I have a cnc router (camtech Z7), but am having a hard time getting things running. Looking to do 3d relief work. Any suggestions are welcome

[thkoutsidthebox]

Im building my first cnc wood router at the moment. No mill. Because the wood router is suitable for what I want to do and AFIK a mill is not. Carving large flat areas, up to 8'x8'. Maybe someday I will get a mill aswell but I dont see a need for one at the moment.

[huezang]

Det er ikke nødvendigvis noen dårlig idé, men ettersom slike bord går veldig sakte er det vanskelig å si om innmaten egner seg for å gå så fort som du vil på en fres.

[bill south]

I have a home built 48 X 48 (aluminum) router, a bridgeport (love old iron), a lathemaster rf45 and a torus pro. Getting ready for retirement!
Bill

[sunny_daise]

most of my friends have the cnc router, some also have mill, so it varies from the business needs.

[bmanners]

I have a benchtop mill. I want to make a cnc router one day but thought I will need the mill to help make a router and to learn about machining in general.

I also have a lathe that I converted to cnc but have since taken the cnc conversion off. I am not experienced enough yet to be confident in using it as a cnc and I don't need cnc lathe parts anyway.

Brett

[dharmic]

I have a small manual mill which I've had for ages, but just bought a router because I needed a bit more of a work cube, was only working plastic and aluminium, and wanted the automation side of it.

If it works out well, I may sell the router one day and replace it (and the manual mill) with a larger CNC mill.

The lathe, I'll keep. Unless a super high res high rigidity high speed 4th or 5th axis drops in my lap