Thread: Another - help me select a mill question

Originally Posted by denncarm

Going cold on the MD46, it is about $4k for the basic machine and if I have to go down to have a look plus shipping it is going to cost over $5K.

Did you even look at the Asset Plant MD45 that I pointed you to?

These are a great machine that can be had for a scratch over 2k. Shipping is remarkably cheap and I expect it would be less than $250 to your door. The other thing to consider is the massive user community around the MD45/RF45/HM46/ZX45 etc. A quick search on Youtube will bring up tons of CNC conversions, belt drive conversions, DRO's, power drawbars and the list goes on and on. CNCZone has tons and tons of threads covering them in the Benchtop mills section. There are literally step by step tutorials on every piece of this mill. CNCCookbook and Graytech have a huge amount of information on them. In my opinion you would be almost crazy to not purchase one as the large active user community is more than worth its weight in gold. Everything you may want to do, every question you have has already been answered with these machines.