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Unread 09-16-2002, 10:18 PM   #20
Fixittt
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If you got 0 experiance with machining, cad/cam, ect, then CNC is NOT for you!!!!!! You will end up breaking more then you make. hell, I am still breaking stuff. Endmills mostly. The Smaller desktop machines like the one that I have and the one that JD has are great little machines. I love mine. But it is just that. Little. You have to take it slow. Hell, if you ever seen that NUKE block I machined a few months back, well it took well over 25 hours to chew that out. It was a drastic 3d modeling code that had something like 27,000 lines it in. It would have taken a $100,000 machine 5 hours to make. Anyways, like I said, its much safer to start with a manual mill, so you can see how different tools react to different materials, how coolant effects parts, to see how hard it really is to machine copper.

We will be here to laugh..... I me to support you. If you need to.

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