definately figure about 1000 dollars into your budget for one of these, dont skimp.
I would go witht he homier mill or harbor freight because R8 is usually easier to find than mt3.
Your gonna want a precision milling vice, Parallels, about 12 or so end mills, collet set, lube, grease, all the goods.
Im loving my homier mill, After tweaking it, its running like a dream! I only have a little backlash but thats gonna be GONE as soon as I convert it to ballscrews.
When you get it, they are full of nasty red grease that all needs to go, then grease up the dovetails and oil all the screws, then you have to tighten stuff just right, the gibs and all. The Z axis does not have very good ajustment, lots of backlash, people have been able to get it down to about 15 thousandts or so. Im just sticking a ballscrew up there.
After a lot of tweaking you can get this thing hogging copper without a problem. it sure does take time to learn it all and get it just how you want.
Jon
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