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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Fair enough, I do have experience in machining, I just don’t own a mill but I totally understand what you are saying. I think I’m going to go with a PM-25 clone available here in Canada with free shipping. Double the price but I know would be sufficient for what I want to do and definitely a...
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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Much appreciated @YYCHM. I think I’m better off waiting and making space for something mid size in general…would be more rigid I guess and worth the effort of conversion. I think at this point the cx605 may be an impulse buy as opposed to something I really need :)
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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Very nice arrangement, unfortunately my bench depth is very limited due to the space occupied by the routers. So you are saying better make space and get something a little bigger? Where did you get your rf30? Also worth mentioning that if I get something bigger I do plan to do a cnc...
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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Thanks @YYCHM. Yes the plan was to use some capacitive scales(igaging style) or cheap magnetic scales with something like the touch DRO system. I’m not really a manual machinist so definitely would not rely on the dials alone. Mini mill mainly because I don’t have space, this would fit perfectly...
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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Thank you both for the quick replies. @YYCHM other than the head down feed issue, would you say the ways are useable as is without lapping or replacement of the gibs?
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    Seeking advice: CX605 or Taig mini mills

    Hello All, First time on this forum and so glad I found one specific to Canada. This would be my first mill(I run a few CNC routers for non-ferrous materials). There is a Black Friday offer on the Craftex cx605 which is fairly affordable but has less travel and generally not as nicely machined...
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