Hi Haas Guys,
I have owned a Haas TM-2 for a couple of years now, and it's 40" of X travel works good for our long parts. I have it set up with 4 Kurt D675 vises on 10" centers so I can clamp any part length or groups of small parts.
My next intended purchase is the Minimill to take over for the smaller parts, and take advantage of it's better performance. My question is whether you can mount a Kurt D688 (Same physical size as D675) in the center T-slot of the table and have enough room for the handle, and enough clearance from the doors at full Y travel. By my layout from the Kurt site, it looks like the Hex on the screw goes about 7 1/4" past the edge of the table. Using this mounting location seems to give me the full envelope of the 8.8" of opening between vise jaws. Thanks in advance.
John