Hi all, after quite a bit of research and a little luck I am now the proud winner of an eBay auction for a Sherline 5400 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Sherline-CNC-mil...QQcmdZViewItem). I am very excited to get my hands on it an start fiddling around. I have had limited hands on experience with CAM but took a class in college where I learned gcode and used surfcam to machine some simple aluminum parts. I bought this mill to primarily make plastic prototypes for consumer electronics but would also like to experiment with cutting aluminum (or soft steels?) such as watch cases or the like.
I hope to be a very active member of this community so I figured I would introduce myself to everyone and ask around if anyone had any suggestions for tooling or upgrades I might want to make to my sherline in order to make some of the aforementioned parts. I am also interested in hearing from the experts what the preferred method of coding and running your sherline. For design I use Solidworks. Thanks for looking!
Regards,
Drew