its the whole machine, not just the motors. you almost need something that is made of cast iron to machine anything more than aluminum.
I built a custom cnc for about that much, it will machine a lot of good stuff and hold up. was a $500 mill to start with and I put a couple more thousand into it to make it cnc. a seige x2(mini mill, homier, harborfreight, grizzly all have it) but in order to do that it takes quite a bit of knowledge and experience. I would have actually wished I would have gotten a bigger one now.
It is quite difficult to find a cnc mill thats not incredebly tiny nor incredebly big and expencive. theres almost no happy medium thats not custom made.
Firstly, do you know anything about machining, cad, cam, or cnc? G-codes M-codes anythig like that? If not, I wouldnt suggest taking the step your thinking about just yet.
a good place to learn a bunch of stuff is cnczone.com and read up wherever else you can.
Jon
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