Anyone familiar with this machine?

Hi good people;

I've been looking for a decent router table large enough to cut guitar bodies on (24" X 18" X 5" maybe)
The guy who sells this machine cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i...geName=STRK:MEWAX:IT also has one that the correct size for me.


Also, How about www.kelinginc.net/CNCNEMA23Package.html Have you heard of them? Weak website but the product line looks good to me.

Does anyone know about these machines?

I need to get started with CNC and I have a budget ab about 1600 bucks. Anyone know of a machine that fits the bill?

There is a sweet looking kit available from Fine Line Automation... but it uses about 700 bucks worth of aluminum "fancy channel". (80/20) The same lengths of rectangular aluminum would cost about 200 and more drilling and tapping.

Now I'm ramblin.... any comments, criticisms or tirades? Fall will be here soon. I want to make my first cut around September 15th.

my 10 bucks , fine for the job but the spindle motor at 560w is too low for what you want , go for the extra 1.5kw spindle .
kelling kit drivers are fine , the stepper drives are chinese leadshine drives just rebranded , they work fine , the break out board c10 is from cnc4pc , again works fine , but can be a pain to set up , see other posts in the forum
on difficulty others faced , but again they do work fine with emc ,

if your looking at solid body guitar work then the spindle plays a big part , so solid construction etc helps

Thank you... To I take it to mean the entire kit from KelingCNC is solid enough to do the work - with a real spindle? I thought all CNC was a pain to set up.
This kind of machine can do fine detail like 6mil traces on a PCB, etc? Insect vasectomies? Seriously I need to do a lot of polycarbonate cutting too, some of it pretty delicate.
Again, thanks.

The Chinese machine and Keiling machine are two of several machines I've been looking at.
Someone from Keiling emailed me back with some answers to questions I had last night.. Sunday night. That carries a lot of weight with me. The link I posted for Keling wasn't the right photo, but... same company. Here is the right image link: www.kelinginc.net/CNCmachines3030.html

To clarify.. I do not want the 80/20 machine, since the frame alone costs as much as the entire Keiling frame, with screws, slides and motors. Its awful pretty though.

I am interested in the Chinese machine, as its cheap and the photograph seems to show a very well constructed little beast. Complete - even with wire management... Its kinda small, and from China, so service, lead times, shipping - all headaches. I'm a newbie to CNC. Not an International trader..

The Keling looks good to me, but like I said, I don't know any of these people. I was hoping to find someone who knows this particular machine or company very well.

Are ball screws and lead screws/ACMEs all the same thing? I know they can be ground to have diff pressure angles... but are there fundamental differences?