I've been a lurker for a while here and I finally got around to bulding my first low budget mill. I still need to mount the stepper motors and build a controller (right now it's manual.)
I posted a complete build tutorial here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make...illing_machine
So far it's working well- I'm already working on modifications to make it better and I've been updating the tutorial as I go.
I'm staggered by the amount of knowledge available on this site and it's been a huge help. Hopefully I'll be building even better machines in the near future!
Jerome