Originally Posted by
RobbyA
Sorry, I should clarify what I mean by secondary (or even primary) operations. I want to know if I could successfully make something round, like a really small car wheel, with and/or without using a 4th axis to rotate the wheel as it is machined. My point being am I just dreaming contemplating that a nice bench top machine (Tormak, Benchmen Minimill etc) could make something as round as say a $4k Taiwanese manual lathe? Is it more realistic to have a blank turned up on a cnc lathe and pocket out the spokes myself, or would the nice bench mill get acceptable results?
I apologise for any confusion.