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Re: Requsting your opinions on this CNC mill

Thank you all for your help, the Xylotex conversion kit seems to fix all my problems!

I'm glad the machine got your "ok" stamp, just one question: is it a big deal that it has a trapezoid profiled screw, instead of a ball screw?
will precision suffer greatly? will the backlash increase over time?

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Do you really need CNC? If you don't need to make radii/splines/etc you really don't NEED it.
well, I was thinking more along the lines of: "if we have a CNC mill, we can make radii/splines/etc..."
but with a conversion kit I agree that learning the basics of milling comes first, and CNC second.
Thanks!
-Leav
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