A CNC Mill For Less Than $200 – Is It Worth Buying? (CNC 3018 Pro)

1. Cool review,

   Also, its interesting listening to your commentary. Your inflection at the end of sentences are completely different when you're continuing a thought into another sentence and when stopping the overall thought. Your pitch seems to lightly lower and slow down when your ending a though.

   Just an interesting pick up, make it easy to keep up.

2. I know nothing about these, but what I need to know is, can this cut a channel 22mm deep 44mm wide in soft wood? Thanks for any help.

3. You gotta have a cutting fluid constantly on it otherwise it Burns up gets hot melts together

4. Responding to comments, I too would like to see upgrades that work and how much it costs. Maybe this could be a good investment if upgrades aren’t excessive ??

5. Thank you for investing your time energy and money into this video. For $200 I wouldn’t expect much, but that spindle run out kinda bothers me….it’s a CNC machine. That should be a lot closer to true. I understand the motor noise and rigidity issues because it’s inexpensive. Just my opinion, such that it is.

6. What's ebai ?

7. For 200$ if a person did small crafts and wanted 5/8 or less letters or numbers cut out that looks like it would be a great deal thanks for the video

8. What is a good metal mini mil?

9. If it's not big enough to do the job and it's not rigid enough to give you repeatable accuracy, then what good is it?

10. Use a downcutting endmill on wood for smooth edges with no burring…

11. I think calling these a mill is a stretch. They are usually shown engraving, you could put a laser I guess if there is a way to control it. Just not very robust but hey it's a 200 dollar machine lol

12. I own one of these. They are fully upgradeable and putting it together teaches you how to repair and upgrade them. Replace the spindle immediately though. Way too much runout on the spindle it comes with. It tries to burn wood too much otherwise.

13. Very good review

14. You need to add a sub straight to the top we use a dense 3/4" Vacuum parodical board on the lg CNC's add it to your Aluminum base to mill into, a 1/4" or 1/2" piece of Plywood should work just fine for the smaller models

15. It looks like a 3D printer

16. put it together first

17. This is it..

18. For $ 200 , It looks usable. Something to learn on

19. can u do v carving with this device? I just want to make simple signs

20. I bought it once and now it's in the closet. Everything worked fine except for setting the spindle to the "home" position – the spindle tried to break through the base or go to the ceiling, and overall it went crazy.

21. The main thing I need is a CNC that no can mill an AR-15 lower. Anything else is bonus.

22. man you just brought to light for me something I thought was beyond reach

23. That reminds me of my drill press. It wasn't exactly cheap at about AU$200+, but it's only good for wood and soft metals, such as aluminium. That's because it's belt-driven between two sets of differently sized wheels that the belt sits in. The belt can be moved between them to adjust the speed, but the speed only gets to about half what is needed for drilling steel. The other day, I tried enlarging the hole in the centre of a lawn mower blade, but the drill press kept jamming. It kind of makes me wish I'd just stuck with using my regular power drill, although it's not as accurate for upright holes.

24. your speaking cadence is very awkward and annoying people address ot

25. What about Delrin?

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