I have a small lathe milling machine combo. It is neat to have, and I can figure out a way to do most of the stuff I want to do on it. But if I were to do it over, I`d get the biggest machines I had room for, or could afford.
That's exactly what I have read over and over. A true machinist will beat down the combo machines and I understand why if you work with bigger equipment constantly but the scope of my work is actually pretty small. I don't want to bring a Grenade to a Balloon fight with this lol and am hoping responses come from people who are able to make small machines do what they need and that is exactly what your reply tells me....