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Re: New Parts
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lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:43:50 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Erik Olson writes:
Roland makes an MDX-3 mill suitable for ABS milling but not aluminum. The
Taig is always showing off aluminum parts (because it can?) Roland does not
advertise as good precision as Taig promises.

By the way, I spoke to a Roland salesman. Although their machines have the
nice digitizing features, they don't have anything in the price/performance
range that Taig addresses.



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  Re: New Parts
 
Well, my little TAIG based machine is now doing production work hollowing out bricks and assemblies of various different sizes. I did a batch of 120 bricks the other night. It would have taken me a week on my manually operated mill. Brick hollowing (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

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(...) Hey, wow, are you really pleased with the Taig? How's the precision? Microproto advertises .0005 repeatability now. Other makers of micro-mills are Roland, Light Machines, Emco-Mayer, Enco, but I am not aware of one as inexpensive and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)

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