(Dis) Advantages of a jig-borer ?

There is a discussion about this currently on the Chaski board:

Depends on which "jig borer". Technically, as the name suggests, a jig borer is for boring holes -which is of slightly limited use for hobby engineering (unless your hobby consists in making plates with a lot of precisely positioned holes). But some jig borers can be used as vertical milling machines as well. If you can get one that can be used as a mill as well it will be a very accurate machine, but probably not suitable for heavy milling.

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Kevin

Thanks for troubling to reply Andrew, but I really can't stand web forums :-(

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