CNC Mill for Antweights? Recommendations?

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EddieJ
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CNC Mill for Antweights? Recommendations?

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I'm probably going to be milling a load of auminium parts for my new antweight bot :D And it will be more fun to get a CNC and do it myself
For my company we have 5 3D printers of various flavours, but I'm totally new to CNC machines.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a small but accurate CNC which can deal with alu and possibly other metal (cooling makes things expensive i hear)

Budget under £2k would be ideal.
I am currently looking at this one.
https://shop.carbide3d.com/collections/ ... 4137890822
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DisinfectANT (Antweight), Cilit BANG (WIP Antweight), Kinetic Disassembly (WIP Antweight)
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Re: CNC Mill for Antweights? Recommendations?

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Hi Eddie, check out Shakey's thread, he's got one:
http://robotwars101.org/forum/viewtopic ... cnc#p57115
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Re: CNC Mill for Antweights? Recommendations?

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Thanks for the tip! I had a look, but the product info seems to suggest it is not for metals. :(
Been hunting about a bit and doing some research, and i think i have some lined up :D will post up here the parts when i get milling
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