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Peter Grey
 
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Default "Stackable" cutters on a vertical mill?

Hi all,

I've been having newbie ruminations. After spending some time making
brackets using my vertical mill/drill, it became obvious how much quicker it
would be to use a horizontal mill with some ganged cutters on an arbor to do
this particular job. Sigh... I suspect a horizontal is in my future.

Anyhow, I wondered if there was a system of ganged cutters available for a
vertical mill. IOW, "stackable" cutters mounted on a small arbor and
inserted into a collett or dedicated holder. Obviously, the approach would
be different than on a horizontal, but it seems possible to do something
like this and minimize the number of passes that one would have to make on
some applications.

Has this been tried and rejected, or not tried for some reason that's not
obvious to me?

Peter