Bantam CNC Desktop Milling Machine Review & Machining Parts! 

Was this a sponsored review? if so why not say so either way?

Is this a sponsored video or not? It's pretty important info. I'd never make a purchasing decision without knowing this info.

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.

What a piece of crap. Reflects poorly on NYC CNC

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

what controller is used? does it include a manual and tutorial guide in operating the controller?

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...!!!

Junk.

Can you post links to the fixture and vises used?

What type of g code post file? Nc, tap etc...?? Thanks

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.

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?

I want to see what a Shearhog can do in it! NYCNC has set the bar high in regards to Shearhogs!!

I would not think that a serious CNC channel would say a machine with RC motor as a spindle could be any good.

Could y'll make a video like this on the nomad 3 please

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.

Who can give me the 3D for the bottle oppener???

Mr Saunders, would you personally recommend this machine?

Would love to see this style of video with Vincent on the Pocket NC!

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.

Cool little machine :)

Whare did buy this

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.

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

In association with Bre Pettis? Of Makerbot fame?

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 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.

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.

$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.

Is this a sponsored video?

Price this machine

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.

You channel is awesome. I hope someday we will see Weber Metals Tour, 60k press is awesome)

Very nice 👍

Nice in depth video

at the end of the video, they state that they borrowed the machine - however you want to interpret that.

This is not a review, it's a paid advertising!

Very disappointed you've put out basically a paid advertisement for this garbage product. Don't sacrifice your credibility for a check!

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.

Those don't look like ball screws to me.

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

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!

Nice, a 30min ad...

Great explaining of what’s going on as you do it. Enjoyed watching the machining a lot as well. Thanks for sharing!

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.

The maker bot guy bought this company and with all the millions he has this is the best thing he can come with? lol

We love the Saunders fixture and vice for this machine.

hope you make a giveaway. haha

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?

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.

This is a real review 👉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0a_HNR46N1o.html

I think I will unsubscribe for a while.

cute little machine tho!

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👍

Batman tools

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.

That is a well made capable cnc machine but it shouldn't cost $4000. Not sure how they came up with this price!

0:10 Try not to sound too enthusiastic.

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.

I saw much chatter.....Doesn't look all that stable.

Could probably build this yourself for about $1000.

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.

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.

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.

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.