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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Milford Inst PCB Driller

From: "Kev Pearce \(kevp.com\)" <email.me@...>
Date: 2004-09-13

> >
> > Do any UK members have experience of or use one of the Milford
> > Instruments 3-axis CNC robots thing to drill homemade PCBs holes?
> > I'm not looking at CNC based PCB etching, simply drilling through holes
> > in noramlly etched boards.
> > Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?
> >
>
> Others have reported drawer-slide mills to work for drilling, so you
> should be fine
> as long as there is no backslash and the drill has a good collet with no
> outrun.
> Do you have this mill? How bad are the drawer slides really?
>
> ST

Hi,

I haven't bought it yet and the rail were the one thing worring me...

More a hobby CNC problem though than a pcb drilling one though...

I was just hoping someone was using one for pcb drilling...


Kev/.