Dang. This is an amazing guide. This could have saved me so much time and money if I read it before buying a crappy mill and having to rebuild most of it from scratch.
On the other hand, I had a great time and learned lots by buying one of those cheap chinese "mini-mills" and slowly replacing all of the awful sand-cast pot metal parts with self-made machined steel parts.
It was kind of a rite of passage like assembling my own light sabre.
