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Subject: Re: table could be usefull for pcb drilling:

From: "docstein99" <docstein99@...>
Date: 2007-04-21

> I don't know about _your_ hands, but with my hands I have to fight
> shaking and poor vision. With this (and later cnc), I only have to
> align one or two locations, and make sure the edge is parallel, and it
> pretty much count turns on the crank to go to new whole locations.

If your hands are not steady and vision is poor, I would suggest buying
a cheap ebay cnc machine. You can drill holes, mill shapes, route-out
circuit board patterns, and even mount a resist-pen to the head and
draw resist patterns.

A cnc machine opens up an entire world of new possibilities and makes
eveything more complex. You can certain do alot more stuff, if you
have the patience to trouble shoot frequent problems on the machine,
and follow natural instinct to upgrade.