I want one of everything, dont you?....I like all types of machinery....Along in there I also want a small tabletop cnc mill because-- I like engraving faces, scenery etc but that type work needs to be done with fast spindle and very rapid X,Y and Z feeds...That is far more abuse than I want to subject to my old retired from the factory cnc mill..
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Youre going to have your mill out of commission while you change it into cnc configuration...That could be tricky..I'd be uncomfortable working without a mill during a project that will require use of a mill...And once completed you will only have a cnc , no longer have a manual mill....Thats interesting too , I hope you get to that point while I still a member here, I'd like to hear your day to day impressions of making the transition from exclusively manual mill to exclusively cnc...
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May I suggest that you spend a few dollars to get an electromechanical time clock , wire it in series with your drivers so that when your drivers are "on" the clock keeps a running total...You will much of the time be working at the computer getting set to run a program but have the drivers turned off- for real sense of working hours just keep track of the drivers 'on' time..You will be amazed how many hours you will log on it..I am over 800 hours in 2 and a half years since I got this second cnc mill going..Contrast that to my Kubota riding mower has fewer than 400 hours after 15 years mowing my 3 acre yard.
