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Re: New Parts
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lugnet.technic
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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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| 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.technic)
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