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Subject: Re: Milford Inst PCB Driller

From: "grantfair2001" <grant.fair@...>
Date: 2004-09-14

Andy at:

http://www.gloomy-place.com/cnc.htm

has a Milford machine. You could reach him at his email address at the
site. He built himself a CNC machine because he found the Milford
limited. So he has related experience.

Grant

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Kev Pearce \(kevp.com\)"
<email.me@k...> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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/.