Homebrew PCBs

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:45:22 +0100, Kev Pearce (kevp.com)  
<email.me@...> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> Details here: http://www.milinst.com/robotics/robotics.htm#axis
>
> I know this is a hobby CNC but it does come with a program to drill  
> using Excellon hole data files directly.
>
> Just wondered if anyone has any comments on it?
>
>
> Cheers all
>
> Kev/.
>
> P.S. I was hoping to use it to make front panels too!
>

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