I am really disappointed you are featuring this machine and giving the creators a platform to advertise it. It is hands down one of the worst desktop machines at its price point with terrible design choices across the board. BUYER BEWARE!! Just a short list of problems the thing has. Insanely badly implemented of the shelf electronics solution (in a metal box with no real airflow), motors weaker than on a 3d printer (thing can not squish a empty water bottle, which my printer can do), spindle shaft which is designed for premature failure, BL-DC spindle motor with a 3$ off the shelf RC brushless driver with terrible torque. Baffling frame design (illogical support usage), most of the machine weight is the massively overkill sheet metal enclosure (being light is not good for a machine tool unless its a hand tool), unsupported round rails (always a good choice when you want to make a machine that bends like a prettzle, not that the Bantam motors are actually powerful enough bend even the thinnest of unsupported rails, tho gravity might), locked proprietary software which limits stuff terribly and many, many more problems ...
This machine is selling for $4000! But how come everything is so cheap, Nema 17 stepper motor, lead screw, 250w spindle… I would just pay no more than $1000 for this thing.
@@doppelhub wery Bad in compare with what? You await to much from this little hobby CNC milling machine, it is better us nothing, an do it a job, slow, not perfect, but do it!
I have been using mine almost daily. The support from Bantam has been great. I had some issues with programming since I am a 100% beginner. I've never touched a CNC machine and have done just a few things on a 3D printer. I will only comment on what I've noticed about the machine good and bad since this is an honest review. For the bad first. 1) The motor doesn't have enough torque. You have to reduce the stepdown and step over to keep it from bogging down. It will seize up on you and shut your mill down if you push it too hard. 2) Sometimes it will freeze and you have to restart it. ( This doesn't happen a lot, but it happens ). 3) It's pretty expensive and it took forever to get it, but I was patient and Bantam was always giving me updates. Now for the good. 1) Customer service ( as a business owner myself this is always my number 1 concern) Bantam has always helped me when I needed it no matter what. They have some pretty smart and helpful people over there and that makes the negatives not so hard to take. 2) The machine is very sturdy for a desktop. It's well built in my opinion. 3) The probing routines are easy to figure out as a beginner and I absolutely love the engraving feature in the software!!! 4) it's easy to clean. 5) The fixturing upgrades are always a good thing and Bantam has plenty of options. The one thing that I wished this had would be a bigger spindle motor that could work more aggressively to machine some deeper cuts. I used my router with a carbide blade to smooth out an aluminum plate 3/4" thick and it cut through it with ease. That's when I realized this motor was too small . For the most part, I am very happy with my purchase and I hope that Bantam will offer a kit that will replace their spindle motor with something a bit beefier. They continue to do revisions on their software to get the bugs out and I understand that as well... Is there better mills out there? Sure, it's all how much you want to pay for them. Would I do it all over again? Absolutely! I've had a very good experience learning and Bantam has plenty of educational material you can access. I don't know who any of these people are because I am a beginner in this, but I do know that I have been happy for the most part with this machine. I hope this helps others that are looking for them a desktop CNC machine.
Completely MISSING any information about 'supplied for review', 'free unit for the business' or we paid for it? Your 'review' is way to positive given the weak points and OTT pricing.
Given the fact that the reviewer is apparently on a first name basis with the CEO of Bantam Tools, Bre Pettis, I'll let you take a guess on whether or not they paid $4,000 for this paperweight.
@@timr86868 I was being 'nice' maybe and asking for a clarification ;) This is timely and the content creator(s) would do well to take a look at review ethics th-cam.com/video/BxbhgBZeMXs/w-d-xo.html
Paid review? I think NYC CNC is cashing in... how about a more sophisticated review. How true are axes to each other? Dimensional stability and accuracy?
if you're not a fan of buying machine tools on ebay I've heard that omiocnc sells some decent 6040 import machines, the 2200L specifically has linear rails.
Honestly the 6040’s are great, can take some troubleshooting at first but when paired with mach3 it’s a pretty capable platform. I’ve even been able to machine steel on mine in not a ridiculous amount of time
@@Spirit532 I’ve heard Linux only works with the parallel port and not the usb versions? (I could be wrong). Not many options out there unfortunately. Though it’s cluttery mach3 has been good to me, maybe I’m getting lucky.
@@bohdanwesely8369 You can toss the USB board and replace it with something like a 7i96 from Mesa. You can also use the parallel port directly, the USB board just has step/dir signals you can map to it.
This seems really out of place for this channel, dare I say disappointing. I will give a pass on this one, I really hope this doesn’t keep up though. I hope this channel gets back to its roots.
@@Rimrock300 Not even that, this machine is very clearly a bad one. It doesn't have a proper spindle motor, has weak steppers, and you can't even use the full spindle power without a paid license. A shapeoko or even a 3018 would be a better purchase and cost less than half of this piece of garbage's price.
So basically NYC CNC is PBS Kids now? **EDIT** I just looked this thing up and it's $4,000!! PLUS $200 annual subscription fee for the software!! You can REAL machine for that money!
Looks kinda like the Haas desktop mill but without the standard Haas user interface box. The main problem with these mini Mills is the price to performance ratio. Is lets me always come to the conclusion that i should just buy a small router for the price and be probably way more flexible at what i can do with the machine. Probably even cheaper...!!!
$4000 for a 1/4 hp spindle machine??? That's insane. For $5400 you could get a tormach pcnc440 and have 3x the hp and a bigger build area in a machine with not much larger a footprint. You would have to be crazy to spend $4000 on a 250W spindle machine. Edit: and nema 17 steppers? They couldn't find $150 for nema 23? This is crazy. Shame on anybody peddling this garbage.
I don't think that's a fair comparison, $5k gets you the base machine and nothing else. No chip tray, no enclosure. By the time you add some pretty basic stuff it's already up over $8k. So yeah, this machine aint cheap but neither is that tormach. The big upside to the tormach is the ability to add tool changing, and the larger work envelope.
The machine is an absolute sham. There has been a SINGLE honest review of this machine by John Sulivan (th-cam.com/video/0a_HNR46N1o/w-d-xo.html, to watch the abomination be put in its place) that I can find, none except him acknowledge the thing is basically a scam.
Way too expensive and underpowered for the price from a hobbyist/primary user perspective, but I can see this being used by schools/spaces with a lot of shared users. Considering my school's makerspace CNC is an even less rigid Roland CNC, this would be a step up in quality. Though if it were my money I'd either get a small shapeoko or Tormach 440.
I was wondering how someone could come up with a machine twice the price and half the performance of hobby machines today and have someone semi reputable like nyccnc shill for them... then I heard the name Bre Pettis. Well that solves that. Skip.
Does the free verson of fusion allow all this to happen? Did not know if i needed to pay for fusion to make parts like this on top of the purchase of your machine.
I appreciate this review as it shows the machine doing what it can do. I followed the various links the others shared, and found machines that either cost more, or do less (or aren't even available). So in terms of a machine you can buy at this price and start using, there doesn't seem to be any competition. I wonder how much of the hate on this machine is actually hate on Bre.
is the spindle custom made or is that sort of thing something that could be a good purchase for a diy machine? I could see the bldc motor with an esc being easier to control with simple machines
Yep, once again he is trying to fool people into buying overpriced and underperforming machines by acting as if anything noteworthy is proprietary here. The asking price for what you get is absolutely outrageous. Maybe somebody wants to have his startup bought again, it worked so well with Makerbot in the past...
Pretty cool. Would be nice to speed up the edits a bit, this video felt a lot slower than most of your other ones. Also, it somewhat lacked a good structure, wasn't quite sure if it's a review, tutorial on how to use this mill or Fusion tutorial. Maybe make two videos, one review, and one tutorial.
Its a promotional piece no questions there. John Sulivan (covers everything from mechanics, electronics, tests, ...) had a very indepth teardown and review of the thing. Believe this thing is absolutely terrible, I recommend avoid it. A much better alternative which actually works would be the Shariff DMC2 (the designer actually used their brain to improve from the initial DMC1 model).
Kinda laughable that this is more expensive than a Shariff DMC2 Kit (which can even do flood cooling and gets a mirror finish on steels). Seems like Bre Pettis is just once again trying to fool people into buying overpriced stuff like he did with Makerbot. Probably he is just trying to get bought up, just like Makerbot got bought by Stratasys.
Not saying this product is any good, but you are comparing it to a kickstarter project that has zero guarantee of actually delivering you a product. They could go bust tomorrow and you get nothing.
@@jaro6985 Kickstarter video showed 10+ machines already built to be sent out. The kits were not shown, but since the previous project (DMC1) did indeed ship, I have little doubt this one will as well.
Wow I'm suprised you guys are trying to con people into this machine.You couldn't pay me to use one of those. 4k?!?! I could build that for 500. How much you get for this review?
When he said "This machine is beeeefy" I was done with the review. I like the channel, but promoting obvious rubbish like this does not reflect well. If you have to timelaps every tiny operation because this toy removes less material than a hand file and still produces a horrible finish ... erm, yeah. Whatever the asking price for a machine like this is, it's wasted money. Print your parts, test fit them, and then have them properly milled at a local machine shop.
A tool that requires a subscription seems to be just a money drain. Tools should be self sufficient and not require an annual payment to maintain its use.
This is not a milling machine. Milling requires power, rigidity, precision, and low runout, none of which a machine of this size and weight can provide. It is incapable of moving a tool with proper feeds and speeds for milling modes. Instead it is a high-speed nibbler or router that rubs off metal instead of milling. Putting CNC milling controls on a non-milling machine doesn't make it a mill.
@@jaro6985 Its not gatekeeping. Better machines are available for less. As some other commenters said for $1400 more you could get a tormach with a larger volume and 3x the spindle power.
@@etch3130 @richard kinch if you show me a tormach in good condition and with modern contols for 1400 € ill buy it instantly, also some people live in a Apartment and only have single phase power, so a desktop cnc was the way to go, bit ill agree there are better cncs out there , there is a market for these types of machines and at 18 years old the budget and many other things didnt allow for more , since i cant carry a pcnc440 down my basement stairs, nor do i have 3-phase power, so i bought a makerdream evo one pro, and yes all out of pocket and no ,i dont expect to make big production runs, but ive already made 750€ selling parts BUT i now can say from myself that i know how to run a cnc (wich is great for getting a job in this field (i study mechatronics) ,so its just a tool to learn , rater than to earn ,if you get what im saying , and overall its just fun , and the best machine my limits allowed 🤷♂️
This machine is garbage. No ball screws, no linear rails. Under powered spindle. Will it make parts? Yes, it will. Will it make parts accurately and consistently? Absolutely not. X Y and Z on lead screws, means 3 dimensions of backlash. Plus, a spindle drive belt? Not powerful enough to mill steels. Save your money and get a more competent machine. I can recommend the Foxalien Vasto Cnc with Linear Rails & Ballscrews. Has 3 sizes of spindle mounts and is quite capable of machining steels with a vfd spindle upgrade. All within the price range of this machine.
Enjoy making bowls I guess as thats the only thing this piece of crap will be making with unsupported round crap bearings all around. The thing that probably costs them money on this machine is the stupid time they spent machining their frame that does absolutely nothing to the rigidity. Buy an old machine instead... Or buy your own stuff and save 3000 monopoly cash.
You look alone, certainly no one within six feet. Why are you wearing a mask? It's a video, you're certainly in control of your environment. Sending a message are you?
I am really disappointed you are featuring this machine and giving the creators a platform to advertise it. It is hands down one of the worst desktop machines at its price point with terrible design choices across the board. BUYER BEWARE!!
Just a short list of problems the thing has.
Insanely badly implemented of the shelf electronics solution (in a metal box with no real airflow), motors weaker than on a 3d printer (thing can not squish a empty water bottle, which my printer can do), spindle shaft which is designed for premature failure, BL-DC spindle motor with a 3$ off the shelf RC brushless driver with terrible torque.
Baffling frame design (illogical support usage), most of the machine weight is the massively overkill sheet metal enclosure (being light is not good for a machine tool unless its a hand tool), unsupported round rails (always a good choice when you want to make a machine that bends like a prettzle, not that the Bantam motors are actually powerful enough bend even the thinnest of unsupported rails, tho gravity might), locked proprietary software which limits stuff terribly and many, many more problems ...
Which one do you recommend? Seemed very well informed. Thanks in advance
For those who don't have experience to build their own and the same budget, what would you recommend?
yea this is basically a baby step up from those cheap 3018s on amazon, for a giant leap in price
@@EngineeringCommonsLLC shapeoko
@@dtroy15 That looks like a router, not a milling machine.
This machine is selling for $4000! But how come everything is so cheap, Nema 17 stepper motor, lead screw, 250w spindle… I would just pay no more than $1000 for this thing.
you mean 500$
Yeah, I don't understand how they do the pricing. Stupid amount of money for the capabilities of the machine.
less than 500. Its absolutely terrible.
I personally love the sherline desktop cnc mill.
$4000....just buy a bench mill like a PM25 and retrofit for CNC for that price.
Is this a sponsored video or not? It's pretty important info. I'd never make a purchasing decision without knowing this info.
I would like to know, too. If sponsored, NYC CNC is legally required to say so. If not, I've lost all trust in NYC CNC. Bantam's machine is very bad.
@@doppelhub wery Bad in compare with what? You await to much from this little hobby CNC milling machine, it is better us nothing, an do it a job, slow, not perfect, but do it!
@@4ever4you100 There are many more capable desktop CNC machines for much less money.
@@4ever4you100 Very bad in compare with any other CNC machine, at any price point. Very bad even for little hobby CNC milling machine.
@NYC CNC: Wow, a week later and still no reply on whether or not this video is sponsored. You're better than this!
Was this a sponsored review? if so why not say so either way?
Because then they wouldn't be committing a crime! Where's the fun in that?
I have been using mine almost daily. The support from Bantam has been great. I had some issues with programming since I am a 100% beginner. I've never touched a CNC machine and have done just a few things on a 3D printer. I will only comment on what I've noticed about the machine good and bad since this is an honest review. For the bad first.
1) The motor doesn't have enough torque. You have to reduce the stepdown and step over to keep it from bogging down.
It will seize up on you and shut your mill down if you push it too hard.
2) Sometimes it will freeze and you have to restart it. ( This doesn't happen a lot, but it happens ).
3) It's pretty expensive and it took forever to get it, but I was patient and Bantam was always giving me updates.
Now for the good.
1) Customer service ( as a business owner myself this is always my number 1 concern)
Bantam has always helped me when I needed it no matter what. They have some pretty smart and helpful people over there and that makes the negatives not so hard to take.
2) The machine is very sturdy for a desktop. It's well built in my opinion.
3) The probing routines are easy to figure out as a beginner and I absolutely love the engraving feature in the software!!!
4) it's easy to clean.
5) The fixturing upgrades are always a good thing and Bantam has plenty of options.
The one thing that I wished this had would be a bigger spindle motor that could work more aggressively to machine some deeper cuts. I used my router with a carbide blade to smooth out an aluminum plate 3/4" thick and it cut through it with ease. That's when I realized this motor was too small .
For the most part, I am very happy with my purchase and I hope that Bantam will offer a kit that will replace their spindle motor with something a bit beefier. They continue to do revisions on their software to get the bugs out and I understand that as well... Is there better mills out there? Sure, it's all how much you want to pay for them. Would I do it all over again? Absolutely! I've had a very good experience learning and Bantam has plenty of educational material you can access.
I don't know who any of these people are because I am a beginner in this, but I do know that I have been happy for the most part with this machine. I hope this helps others that are looking for them a desktop CNC machine.
What a piece of crap. Reflects poorly on NYC CNC
Completely MISSING any information about 'supplied for review', 'free unit for the business' or we paid for it? Your 'review' is way to positive given the weak points and OTT pricing.
Given the fact that the reviewer is apparently on a first name basis with the CEO of Bantam Tools, Bre Pettis, I'll let you take a guess on whether or not they paid $4,000 for this paperweight.
@@timr86868 I was being 'nice' maybe and asking for a clarification ;) This is timely and the content creator(s) would do well to take a look at review ethics th-cam.com/video/BxbhgBZeMXs/w-d-xo.html
Paid review? I think NYC CNC is cashing in... how about a more sophisticated review. How true are axes to each other? Dimensional stability and accuracy?
It sounded very scripted
I would not think that a serious CNC channel would say a machine with RC motor as a spindle could be any good.
The machine and software actually don't look too bad. But Bre Pettis! We will never forgive him for turning on the Open Source community!
Very disappointed you've put out basically a paid advertisement for this garbage product. Don't sacrifice your credibility for a check!
Moreover its not been disclosed as an ad so is completely illegal. Credibility has been sacraficed already it seems.
This is not a review, it's a paid advertising!
Guys, just buy a 6040 cnc router on ebay, you can even find ones with linear rails for less than half the price of this bendy thing
if you're not a fan of buying machine tools on ebay I've heard that omiocnc sells some decent 6040 import machines, the 2200L specifically has linear rails.
Honestly the 6040’s are great, can take some troubleshooting at first but when paired with mach3 it’s a pretty capable platform. I’ve even been able to machine steel on mine in not a ridiculous amount of time
@@bohdanwesely8369 I would avoid Mach3. LinuxCNC gets you _way_ more flexibility, at the cost of slightly more complicated setup.
@@Spirit532 I’ve heard Linux only works with the parallel port and not the usb versions? (I could be wrong). Not many options out there unfortunately. Though it’s cluttery mach3 has been good to me, maybe I’m getting lucky.
@@bohdanwesely8369 You can toss the USB board and replace it with something like a 7i96 from Mesa. You can also use the parallel port directly, the USB board just has step/dir signals you can map to it.
This seems really out of place for this channel, dare I say disappointing. I will give a pass on this one, I really hope this doesn’t keep up though. I hope this channel gets back to its roots.
Yeah, no viewer of this channel would ever bother go for a CNC machine under 25000 USD.
@@Rimrock300 Not even that, this machine is very clearly a bad one. It doesn't have a proper spindle motor, has weak steppers, and you can't even use the full spindle power without a paid license. A shapeoko or even a 3018 would be a better purchase and cost less than half of this piece of garbage's price.
So basically NYC CNC is PBS Kids now?
**EDIT** I just looked this thing up and it's $4,000!! PLUS $200 annual subscription fee for the software!! You can REAL machine for that money!
I want to see what a Shearhog can do in it! NYCNC has set the bar high in regards to Shearhogs!!
Looks kinda like the Haas desktop mill but without the standard Haas user interface box.
The main problem with these mini Mills is the price to performance ratio. Is lets me always come to the conclusion that i should just buy a small router for the price and be probably way more flexible at what i can do with the machine. Probably even cheaper...!!!
$4000 for a 1/4 hp spindle machine??? That's insane. For $5400 you could get a tormach pcnc440 and have 3x the hp and a bigger build area in a machine with not much larger a footprint.
You would have to be crazy to spend $4000 on a 250W spindle machine.
Edit: and nema 17 steppers? They couldn't find $150 for nema 23? This is crazy. Shame on anybody peddling this garbage.
I don't think that's a fair comparison, $5k gets you the base machine and nothing else. No chip tray, no enclosure. By the time you add some pretty basic stuff it's already up over $8k. So yeah, this machine aint cheap but neither is that tormach. The big upside to the tormach is the ability to add tool changing, and the larger work envelope.
@@twoheadedpanthr yeah but the value proposition is significantly better for a tormach and I dont even like my own tormach.
The machine is an absolute sham. There has been a SINGLE honest review of this machine by John Sulivan (th-cam.com/video/0a_HNR46N1o/w-d-xo.html, to watch the abomination be put in its place) that I can find, none except him acknowledge the thing is basically a scam.
@@twoheadedpanthr The Tormach is much better overall value still at the end of the day even with the increased price to $8K compared to this.
@@twoheadedpanthr all stuff that you can easily make yourself
Junk.
Way too expensive and underpowered for the price from a hobbyist/primary user perspective, but I can see this being used by schools/spaces with a lot of shared users. Considering my school's makerspace CNC is an even less rigid Roland CNC, this would be a step up in quality. Though if it were my money I'd either get a small shapeoko or Tormach 440.
Nice, a 30min ad...
Worse an ad for a bad product.
@@exol511 they probably wouldn't need to pay them to film an ad lengthy and fake like this one instead of a regular review if it was any good...
@@addamussi did you see an actual review of this "Thing"? John Sulivan put out a scalding review of it if you are up to watch him tear down the thing.
Would love to see this style of video with Vincent on the Pocket NC!
Could y'll make a video like this on the nomad 3 please
Cool little machine :)
what controller is used? does it include a manual and tutorial guide in operating the controller?
I was wondering how someone could come up with a machine twice the price and half the performance of hobby machines today and have someone semi reputable like nyccnc shill for them... then I heard the name Bre Pettis. Well that solves that. Skip.
at the end of the video, they state that they borrowed the machine - however you want to interpret that.
Does the free verson of fusion allow all this to happen? Did not know if i needed to pay for fusion to make parts like this on top of the purchase of your machine.
What type of g code post file? Nc, tap etc...?? Thanks
Is this a sponsored video?
It must be.
I appreciate this review as it shows the machine doing what it can do. I followed the various links the others shared, and found machines that either cost more, or do less (or aren't even available). So in terms of a machine you can buy at this price and start using, there doesn't seem to be any competition. I wonder how much of the hate on this machine is actually hate on Bre.
is the spindle custom made or is that sort of thing something that could be a good purchase for a diy machine? I could see the bldc motor with an esc being easier to control with simple machines
Mr Saunders, would you personally recommend this machine?
no, just the vise!
Watch the tear down video for this. it is a pile of trash and just puts a pretty paint job on a basic grbl powered 1/4hp router.
Can you post links to the fixture and vises used?
In association with Bre Pettis? Of Makerbot fame?
Yep, once again he is trying to fool people into buying overpriced and underperforming machines by acting as if anything noteworthy is proprietary here. The asking price for what you get is absolutely outrageous. Maybe somebody wants to have his startup bought again, it worked so well with Makerbot in the past...
The maker bot guy bought this company and with all the millions he has this is the best thing he can come with? lol
I'm not surprised his products were trash
@@_babyjesus How bad?
We love the Saunders fixture and vice for this machine.
Those don't look like ball screws to me.
That's because they aren't... they're not even ACME threads, and the nuts are plastic, with plastic spacers.
Nice in depth video
Pretty cool. Would be nice to speed up the edits a bit, this video felt a lot slower than most of your other ones. Also, it somewhat lacked a good structure, wasn't quite sure if it's a review, tutorial on how to use this mill or Fusion tutorial. Maybe make two videos, one review, and one tutorial.
Its a promotional piece no questions there. John Sulivan (covers everything from mechanics, electronics, tests, ...) had a very indepth teardown and review of the thing. Believe this thing is absolutely terrible, I recommend avoid it. A much better alternative which actually works would be the Shariff DMC2 (the designer actually used their brain to improve from the initial DMC1 model).
Who can give me the 3D for the bottle oppener???
I think I will unsubscribe for a while.
Kinda laughable that this is more expensive than a Shariff DMC2 Kit (which can even do flood cooling and gets a mirror finish on steels).
Seems like Bre Pettis is just once again trying to fool people into buying overpriced stuff like he did with Makerbot. Probably he is just trying to get bought up, just like Makerbot got bought by Stratasys.
Not saying this product is any good, but you are comparing it to a kickstarter project that has zero guarantee of actually delivering you a product. They could go bust tomorrow and you get nothing.
@@jaro6985 Well, this is about as close to nothing as you can get anyway... Either you get a machine or this worthless paperweight.
@@jaro6985 Kickstarter video showed 10+ machines already built to be sent out. The kits were not shown, but since the previous project (DMC1) did indeed ship, I have little doubt this one will as well.
Shariff DMC2 still hasn't shipped yet.
@@canonicaltom How long overdue is it by now?
Price this machine
Thanks for the video Where did you learn how to do all this it’s amazing I really want to learn but don’t know where to start
Very nice 👍
Whare did buy this
You channel is awesome. I hope someday we will see Weber Metals Tour, 60k press is awesome)
Wow I'm suprised you guys are trying to con people into this machine.You couldn't pay me to use one of those. 4k?!?! I could build that for 500. How much you get for this review?
When he said "This machine is beeeefy" I was done with the review.
I like the channel, but promoting obvious rubbish like this does not reflect well.
If you have to timelaps every tiny operation because this toy removes less material than a hand file and still produces a horrible finish ... erm, yeah.
Whatever the asking price for a machine like this is, it's wasted money.
Print your parts, test fit them, and then have them properly milled at a local machine shop.
That is a well made capable cnc machine but it shouldn't cost $4000. Not sure how they came up with this price!
It is not well made. See my extensive hardware review: th-cam.com/video/0a_HNR46N1o/w-d-xo.html&lc=UgyJtthOmuU0rHBrHSJ4AaABAg
A tool that requires a subscription seems to be just a money drain. Tools should be self sufficient and not require an annual payment to maintain its use.
This is not a milling machine. Milling requires power, rigidity, precision, and low runout, none of which a machine of this size and weight can provide. It is incapable of moving a tool with proper feeds and speeds for milling modes. Instead it is a high-speed nibbler or router that rubs off metal instead of milling. Putting CNC milling controls on a non-milling machine doesn't make it a mill.
Get over your gatekeeping mentality, its a desktop CNC milling machine whether its garbage or not.
@@jaro6985 Its not gatekeeping. Better machines are available for less. As some other commenters said for $1400 more you could get a tormach with a larger volume and 3x the spindle power.
@@etch3130 @richard kinch if you show me a tormach in good condition and with modern contols for 1400 € ill buy it instantly, also some people live in a Apartment and only have single phase power, so a desktop cnc was the way to go,
bit ill agree there are better cncs out there , there is a market for these types of machines and at 18 years old the budget and many other things didnt allow for more , since i cant carry a pcnc440 down my basement stairs, nor do i have 3-phase power, so i bought a makerdream evo one pro, and yes all out of pocket and no ,i dont expect to make big production runs, but ive already made 750€ selling parts
BUT i now can say from myself that i know how to run a cnc (wich is great for getting a job in this field (i study mechatronics) ,so its just a tool to learn , rater than to earn ,if you get what im saying , and overall its just fun , and the best machine my limits allowed 🤷♂️
I've said it before but in addition to a good intro, a better backdrop with maybe your logo displayed in the corner of the screen👍
I bet it took that thing 6 hours to make it. Lol
Mine has been running almost daily since I have gotten it in April. It's a great desktop unit to learn on.
lead time is coming down too! looks like the machine is worth the wait
What made you decide on the Bantam vs the carbide3d nomad 3? The bantam is over 25% more $.
You guys really have been using the machine ton. It's been great to see the different parts your team has been making.
@@coleledger6613 Great question. Bantam requires annual software subscription that frankly is making this an easy decision.
@@fredpinczuk7352 doesnt require it, the subscription just unlocks additional features
0:10 Try not to sound too enthusiastic.
hope you make a giveaway. haha
Could probably build this yourself for about $1000.
This is a real review 👉 th-cam.com/video/0a_HNR46N1o/w-d-xo.html
cute little machine tho!
I saw much chatter.....Doesn't look all that stable.
Batman tools
Great explaining of what’s going on as you do it. Enjoyed watching the machining a lot as well. Thanks for sharing!
This machine is garbage. No ball screws, no linear rails. Under powered spindle. Will it make parts? Yes, it will. Will it make parts accurately and consistently? Absolutely not. X Y and Z on lead screws, means 3 dimensions of backlash. Plus, a spindle drive belt? Not powerful enough to mill steels. Save your money and get a more competent machine. I can recommend the Foxalien Vasto Cnc with Linear Rails & Ballscrews. Has 3 sizes of spindle mounts and is quite capable of machining steels with a vfd spindle upgrade. All within the price range of this machine.
Sponsored video or not?
4000$ 😂
Enjoy making bowls I guess as thats the only thing this piece of crap will be making with unsupported round crap bearings all around.
The thing that probably costs them money on this machine is the stupid time they spent machining their frame that does absolutely nothing to the rigidity.
Buy an old machine instead... Or buy your own stuff and save 3000 monopoly cash.
Nope. Very, very overpriced. The software being "very I phone like" is a very bad sign.
Great video but my man is very boring to listen to
Used to think you put out good content. Now you've lost my trust. Unsubscribing/following.
You look alone, certainly no one within six feet. Why are you wearing a mask? It's a video, you're certainly in control of your environment. Sending a message are you?
Junk.