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Re: CNC Mill or Router?

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Originally Posted by Lireal View Post
We currently have a band saw, drill press, chop saw, hand held circular saw, cordless drills, and hand tools.
In that case, I'll add to Adam's post and say that splitting the money between a manual mill and lathe may be a good choice. You can almost always find a quality used Kneemill for a couple thousand, with much better deals popping up on occasion (We got a quality bridgeport clone with power feed and DRO for $700). A lathe, likewise, can often be found used, and revolutionizes what a team is capable of building in ways that are hard to fully understand unless you have one. Getting a lathe in 2013 utterly revolutionized my team's build process, much more than the manual mill did the next year.
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