Excellent Value for Money

After looking at used equipment prices, we opted to buy a new "lower end" mill, the entire purchase and delivery process ran smoothly, and so does the mill, we opted for the iso 40 version because of th ewide range of low cost tooling from many suppliers (even though the spindle is perhaps undersized to take proper advantage of the larger tool holders), this means we had to make some drawbar adapters (one is supplied with the mill, M12 female to M16 male, but it's hard to remember which tool has the adapter fitted), not a big hassle. The professionalism of teh delivery guy and the fitting team (as well as the sales team) was outstanding, great attention to detail from all.
We've been running the machine daily for over a month now, and it's a pleasure to see how well it deals with large tools (5 inch face cutter with shallow cuts in steel. or 20mm end mill making 5mm doc also in steel), we opted to take the default X only powerfeed, and this gives true mirror finishes in aluminium on slow feeds with aluminium-specific face cutters. The automatic quill feed (and depth stop) is a dream for drilling and boring. I've added a third party scale for the quill to augment the excellent 3-axis DRO provided as standard (the knee-based DRO for Z works great for milling, but it's hard with my eyes to use the quill scale provided - the micrometer physical stop is perfect, but hard to know what depth it will kick in without an exteranl stop in my hands/eyes :)) - all round we're very impressed with the abilities of the machine and the ability of Axminster to deliver it (physically and economically).