Comment by aleph_minus_one
6 hours ago
> You can use a milling to mill a bunch of pieces for a milling machine.
Now that CNC mills get more affordable, people are starting to get vocal about their visions of a self-milling CNC mill. :-)
6 hours ago
> You can use a milling to mill a bunch of pieces for a milling machine.
Now that CNC mills get more affordable, people are starting to get vocal about their visions of a self-milling CNC mill. :-)
A classic manual Bridgeport mill, a foundry for making castings, a heat-treating furnace, a steel planer, a lathe, a drill press, a grinder, and a supply of steel is enough for a master machinist to reproduce all that. That's what was used to make machine tools in the first half of the 20th century.