Small shop cnc Mills Lathes?/

[madman]

Without having to be a electronics expert and build youre own bridgeport clone cnc which of the small cnc s in the home shop machinist magazine are actually capable of doing some relatively decent machining? Like remove .070 thou cuts on brass with a small cutter kinda thing. I was thinking of a cnc mill to build some small brass components. >22 gatling gun..

[Mark Hockett]

madman,
If you have the money to spend and the room the Tormach CNC ( http://www.tormach.com/) is a nice looking machine for half the price of a new Bridgeport.

I have friends who have both the Taig and Sherline CNC mills. Both make nice parts but have very limited capacity.

[Evan]

Mike, a gatling gun is a prohibited weapon in Canada. It's considered a machine gun.

[madman]

Are you serious. I thought you could have one here. Its just a buncha .22 barrels. Kinda stuck together. But if its illegal i wont build too many. I mean any.

[JCHannum]

In the US, the hand cranked Gatling guns are not considered machine guns as an individual action is required for each round fired. Canadian law may be more stringent.

[Evan]

Mike's in Canada, and yes, Canadian law is more stringent. Any weapon capable of rapid fire due to a mechanism other than pulling a trigger for each round is prohibited if the muzzle velocity exceeds 500 fps. That also includes any sort of trigger actuator.

[MikeHenry]

You might also want to check out Industrial Hobbies. They sell a manual desktop mill and a CNC retrofit kit.

I went with Tormach and need to get one more component into the basement before it can be set up, but a trial run in the garage looked pretty good.

Mike