"Wes" wrote in message
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"Tom Gardner" wrote:

Thanks for the help! A climb feed with a bit of cutting fluid at high
speed
and the finished cuts are free of welded swarf and the finish looks
professional. I'll post pix of the assemblies before they get too
dirty...provided they work right. The prototype works but we all know
that
doesn't count for much. Damn, I love Aluminum!



Glad that your project is working.

When I roughed out my indicator base out of aluminum I pulled out my
little
slipstick for speeds and for carbide tooling it it listed surface speed
per
minute as max. My only concern was just how deep to bury the inserted
cutter.

Did your bridgeport feel like it was on steroids?


Wes

Since I bought this new one last year, we are still getting to know each
other. There are some things I don't like. It makes no noise, my old one
"spoke" to me. It has no character, I haven't found the "edge" yet. It
doesn't provoke the feeling of accomplishment when I finish an operation, it
just does the work and kind of says: "Ho-hum, is that the best you got?"
I had to learn how to make drawings differently with the DRO in mind. I had
to learn how to mill all over again as the new BP is absolutely perfect and
now an operation takes a quarter of the time so planning a milling session
is crucial to taking advantage of the increase in productivity.