Building A CNC Mill That Attaches To My CNC Lathe

In this video I show you how I turned my CNC lathe (Sherline 4410 CNC Lathe) into a capable Mini CNC mill. My goal ever since moving into my new workshop in 2019 was to have a CNC lathe and CNC mill as a hobby. Having since ended up with two lathes, the space that was destined for a larger mill was taken up by the Sieg C3. I could always go down the route of getting a small CNC 3040 and finding a place to put that, but having owned one almost 6 years ago, my experience with it turned my away from going down the Chinese CNC route. In my experience the electronic were CNC questionable at best and the rigidity of the machine was not as good as one would have thought, it was a solid machine, but it isn't something I would want to sink $1,000 AUD into again. There are certainly cheaper CNC options available nowadays, like the CNC 3018 (footage of which I showed in my video which was sourced from TechDIY    • Banggood 3018 Mini Cnc Router Kit Build, T...   who I am personally a fan on) and whilst it is great that CNC machines can be bought for such a low price, the rigidity and power are so poor that it limits itself to machining acrylic and wood, to cut any other materials I would need to modify the CNC with a new motor, bracing and a new CNC controller to allow me to use Linux CNC or Mach 3. For these reasons I turned my attention to the Sherline. It is quite obvious that the lathe looks almost identical to Sherlines CNC mill, it is just missing a vertical axis and spindle. i could always buy the vertical CNC axis from Sherline, but after adding up all the costs associated with it, coupled with the fact that I would have to disassemble the lathe to use the mill I opted to try my own design. As a side note that I didn't get into in the video, One thing that I required, at least for one or two projects, was to have a high resolution for engraving. With micro stepping that i could control on the CNC I could get a higher resolution than what is offered by the Chinese CNC machines. I understand that micro stepping is not the end all and be all, but it is adequate for what I need.