Hi All,
Thanks for all your input, and the links as well. The budget is so tight mostly because at this stage my wife has some needs and we came up with a solution to share the costs of projects. 3 main projects under-way, one for me, one for my wife and one for the family as a whole. I have reached the limit of spend now for this project and now have to concentrate on the other builds, all this before I start Uni.
I though of belts as an option but the size of the machine is not suitable for desktop printers. This unit has a working area of about 1m^2. This requires fairly heavy duty steppers. The Nema 23 or 24 look good although i haven't research much the amount of workload my machine will take. Either way It will require amendments to cutting depths when motor are finally purchased.
I have mostly machine parts and electronic parts along with general home stuff we are moving to make funds, although these funds have got to go across the other projects too. My wife had to quit work recently due to a wrist and shoulder injury (not work related) so finances are going to get tougher.
Anyway will be working hard to complete things and will update this post as it goes. Cheers all.
Other project on hands are.
Craft Table/storage solution.
Bike builds:
Kids are getting this - http://www.atomiczombie.com/Vigilant...20Chopper.aspx
Wife and I are getting this - http://www.atomiczombie.com/Aurora%2...g%20Trike.aspx
Just learning weld which will be another project -
http://www.bigyella.com/ 