> Maybe but its a matter of pure luck that any given person comes across
> one of these small drill machines your talking about. And spending
> $1000's on a brand new drill machine is just not an option. Building a
> CNC machine from scratch is a mammoth task compared, to building a
> manual drill press.
That is simply not true. I built a CNC mill/drill based on the Brute
design at www.crankorgan.com and it only took about a week to make it.
Granted it is not a professional unit, but it is accurate down to
0.00025", plenty good enough for hobby PCB drilling! It cost virtually
nothing to build, mostly scrap aluminum channel and scrap plastic blocks.
Ed Okerson