What mill to buy

[D8R]

Hi Peter, with my (little) knollage about mills and lathes I would recommend as big as possible. Did get a bigger lathe last year (no CNC but with digital readouts) and my milling machine RF35 (also with DRO) is a little to small for my model works. But I´m building rather big models (scale ~1-5.6) so it´s big pieces and normaly in steel.
would love to have a CNC mill but can´t get one inside the house if I choose the size I want to.
Dan

[ihbuilder]

Peter

get as big as you can trust me when I cut the drop arm for my frame-less , I had to reposition it 6 times on my tiag . since then , I've been cursing the day I got it and not the good used BP I got a 3 ton milltronics cnc knee mill that I hope to have running soon then the tiag gona get the boot for a manual BP for doing 1 or 2 of's simple things that take more time to program then to do by hand . Don't get me wrong the tiag Is a good lil machine , but has it's limitations but take it from TC1cat he has both and is a machinist longer then me .

IHSteve