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You should check out G-Wizard, Bob Warfield has a neat little G74 function that makes simple work out of programming "turning" for the mill.

As to holding round tooling, why not load up one of...

The BEST benchtop mill in that category, for the money is going to be the Tormach PCNC 770 or PCNC 1100. The 770 starts at $6200 for the base machine, options go up from there. The 1100 starts at...

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Turning a TTS blank into an arbor for a facemill is a project that a newbie in a first-semester machining class at the community college could do...

Take this:...

Why doesn't somebody make a compound attachment plate...like on a lathe. Then angles are easily set as is zeroing out. As it's only holding a torch, it doesn't have to be massive, it simply needs to...

You guys are machinists and you have the machine...why aren't you modifying a TTS blank to accept the face-mill you want to use?!?

Actually...it isn't impossible. If you have room for a sprag clutch (like from an automatic transmission) it is entirely possible to do it that way. Once it's tight, the sprag jumps and you won't...

I would imagine that a bearing heater would work quite satisfactorily for this...

Ok...you win. Hobbyists know better than professionals. Maybe this is why no one else has contributed to your thread? You admit you don't know anything, and then you try to tell me what can be done...

I have no qualms with utilizing otherwise "empty" space on a house to offset it's energy usage. Just don't pretend that snow, dust, and other environmental "drops" won't affect it. Also don't pretend...

Realistically you need a real mill to handle machining aluminum in any meaningful way. Yes you can use a homemade CNC router on aluminum, but it's several steps below simply automating what has been...

It has been my experience that cast-iron fines in the coolant will leave a nasty embedding of iron particles in the aluminum. You end up with aluminum that rusts and exhibits galvanic corrosion that...

Seems to me you're overcomplicating the design and process.

There are a number of companies that make polypropylene honeycomb...it's used in various composite panels for the construction trades...

Cutting carbon-fiber on the mill is just like grinding graphite on a surface grinder...coolant is MANDATORY if you don't have a shop-air filter with a 1 micron or less medium.

Yes it will...

Mariss, I believe Matt is trying to point out that he has no NEED of a science-based education, as a True-Believer and convert of AGW/Climate Change.

He gets his knowledge from a higher-power and...

Matt...

AGW/Climate Change with anthropomorphic causes is NOT a science. Science is a repeatable result by other scientists, using unbiased data and a clearly defined protocol.

Being a...

Matt Clara...

You can be one of the angry villagers bearing pitchforks and torches, encouraging the Inquisition priests to set fire to the blasphemous "witches" you are clearly afraid of...but at...

Try climb-milling rather than conventional cutting. You fight the ballscrews with conventional cutting on a CNC mill, the cutting forces try to backdrive the ballscrew.

Climb-milling will never...

You want what's called a router-shoe.

Get an acrylic or lexan tube that fits over the spindle nose using a clamp, with a vaccuum port on the side, and a bristle-brush rim that's as long as the...

It's ok rwexec...you were my favorite kinda date in college...cheap & easy! :D

There are plenty of good examples of the capabilities of this machine.

Start here: www.tormach.com

and here: YouTube - Tormach

and here: www.cnczone.com/forums/tormach_pcnc/

Hmmm...the part below looks like it could be made easier & less expensively by bending washers and welding them to flat stock and a lathe-turned end plug, then finish machining on a lathe. In fact if...

You mean something like this: RAZORFORM TOOLS

with this: National Machine Tool - Internal Mechanics

or this: YouTube - 4th Axis internal spline cutting. CNC automated. bridgeport...

That's a two-way street there, buddy. I'm not some home-shop guy putzing around with a Sterling engine. I've worked in production shops, job shops, oil-field shops, maintenance shops and hobby shops...

Yes I did miss that part. I reiterate...if he owns two "expensive" ram EDMs, why did he cheap out with a Tormach mill?

Methinks I smell manure somewhere in his prose...

What perspective...

You aren't much of a machinist if you can't see the use for it...

There are very few accessories that Tormach sells that are under $500.

You have never used one, so you can't see the...

Yeah I can. I don't see why I should, you have made it clear that your agenda is discrediting the idea, rather than seeing that it is possible and could be beneficial to the range of options that...

I understand that price is a consideration for you...it is also a consideration for those in this business in order to stay in business (making a profit). This is not a charity, it's not equitable to...

You aren't discouraging me, you're actually encouraging me. Your complete lack of knowledge on the subject shows exactly why this technology should be refined and implemented by Tormach.

I would pay in the same range of $$$ that all the various manufacturers are currently asking for those products...because that's what the market is asking for. That whole supply & demand "capitalist"...