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Dave,
I'd write to you off list, but I can't find an address for you. I'm very interested in a low-price CNC kit, even with a very small work envelope and for very light duty. The important thing is to have good directions and include everything (or at least the hard to get stuff) in the kit. I think that many of the people on this list would have the ability to do much of the fabrication and assembly of the kit themselves, so it would probably be simpler and cheaper for you to offer as many 'raw' materials as possible and let the user do the building themselves as much as possible. (i.e. cutting stock to length, soldering circuit boards, crimping wires, drilling holes, etc.)

Probably like many people on this list, I'd love to have a small CNC machine to 'play with'. I don't have the money to drop $2k for a ready-built machine, but I do have more money than time. So spending $900 for a kit where I can just walk through the instructions is much better for me than spending $500 on materials and having to take the time to design everything out myself, if that makes any sense.

∗Brian