Gentlemen,
I realize this may not be the best place to post this, but I figured it was a start. I am going to look at two benchtop mills this week. I don't have a good feel for the condition of either as they are being sold by a machine moving company. The one is a DM2400 and the other is a Emco Concept Mill 55. I really don't know the history of either, but at least one, I believe the Emco came out of a high school.
From what I have read, while the travel is slightly smaller on the DM2400, it seems to be viewed as being very well built, albeit under powered. I haven't found many opinions on the Emco.
They both have aging electronics, but the DM2400 much more so. I know both are often retrofitted with newer control boards.
I like that the DM2400 is built more for coolant but it is so limited on drill size and endmill size.
What are your thoughts? I am not a great programmer, but I have a fair amount of experience with the siemens 840d for machine control rather than machining so I can handle programming and learning the quirks of either.
Thanks,
Dustin