Unlogic, thanks for the very elaborate reply.
I'm in a situation in my life where I start to have the funds to buy bigger machines. If I had the room for it, I would get a SYIL X7. But currently I need the machine to fit through a regular 80cm doorway. In 10 years or so, I will move to a house with a real garage/workshop and then I will have the room for a real CNC like the SYIL. Until then, I want something sturdy that I can convert to CNC down the line. The MH 50V seems like a good candidate and I have local distributors in my country.
I had a quick look at the Mobasi build, and I feel like I could accept the price tag of around €17k for a complete build including the machine. I'm comparing to the €43k for the SYIL since to me it makes sense there is a good price gap between the two.
I don't have any experience with a CNC build so I should probably start smaller than the MH 50V. I have an Optimum BF16 Vario, basically the smallest machine I could get many years ago, and I could start with that machine and Chinese components when I get the MH 50V.
This is purely hobby for me. So I don't NEED the precision of a real CNC. Maybe even the BF16 as a CNC will be fine for me for a long time.
Enough about me. Now that you have the MH 50V converted to CNC, do you miss the manual machine? I don't have a drill press so I use my BF16 even for drilling simple holes. If you need 1 hole in a piece of steel, the location is marked with a punch or a pen, would it be just as easy to drill the hole on the CNC as it would cranking the hand wheels of a manual machine?
I'm in a situation in my life where I start to have the funds to buy bigger machines. If I had the room for it, I would get a SYIL X7. But currently I need the machine to fit through a regular 80cm doorway. In 10 years or so, I will move to a house with a real garage/workshop and then I will have the room for a real CNC like the SYIL. Until then, I want something sturdy that I can convert to CNC down the line. The MH 50V seems like a good candidate and I have local distributors in my country.
I had a quick look at the Mobasi build, and I feel like I could accept the price tag of around €17k for a complete build including the machine. I'm comparing to the €43k for the SYIL since to me it makes sense there is a good price gap between the two.
I don't have any experience with a CNC build so I should probably start smaller than the MH 50V. I have an Optimum BF16 Vario, basically the smallest machine I could get many years ago, and I could start with that machine and Chinese components when I get the MH 50V.
This is purely hobby for me. So I don't NEED the precision of a real CNC. Maybe even the BF16 as a CNC will be fine for me for a long time.
Enough about me. Now that you have the MH 50V converted to CNC, do you miss the manual machine? I don't have a drill press so I use my BF16 even for drilling simple holes. If you need 1 hole in a piece of steel, the location is marked with a punch or a pen, would it be just as easy to drill the hole on the CNC as it would cranking the hand wheels of a manual machine?