hi guys i have purchaced a milling machine with a rotary vise sure works
nice on wood i make oak wheals cutting in the end grain nice clean cut and
perfact round wheels shoul have bouht one years ago thanks

gilles wrote:
| hi guys i have purchaced a milling machine with a rotary vise sure
| works nice on wood i make oak wheals cutting in the end grain nice
| clean cut and perfact round wheels shoul have bouht one years ago
| thanks

Great! Can/would you post a photo to
news:alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking?

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

ayup. I have a mill-drill as my main drilling machine in the shop. a
rotary table is on the list of things I want to find at a yard sale
someday....

the big disadvantage of a mill for woodworking seems to be slow
spindle speeds.

wrote:

ayup. I have a mill-drill as my main drilling machine in the
shop. a rotary table is on the list of things I want to find at
a yard sale someday....

the big disadvantage of a mill for woodworking seems to be slow
spindle speeds.

Get one of these machines from Grizzly:
http://www.grizzly.com/products/G9959

420-5000 rpm. Only $2850. :-)

It'd be a fun toy to have, but I can't justify the expense.

Harbor Freight has a cute little mini-mill I've been considering.
It's probably the same as the one Grizzly has:
http://www.grizzly.com/products/G9959. It's pretty small, but
considering that I'm just tinkering and mostly making small toys for
kids, it might be good enough for me.

On 14 Feb 2007 11:25:52 -0800, wrote:

ayup. I have a mill-drill as my main drilling machine in the shop. a
rotary table is on the list of things I want to find at a yard sale
someday....

the big disadvantage of a mill for woodworking seems to be slow
spindle speeds.

a rotary table is a pain to setup (G) what a hassle to get it right.
speed is not a big issue use a hss endmill and just be careful when
you exit the side grain that's when you can get blowout. other then
that it is not a problem. I don't usually change speed anymore if I am
not exiting side grain.

Steve knight wrote:
| On 14 Feb 2007 11:25:52 -0800, wrote:
|
|| ayup. I have a mill-drill as my main drilling machine in the shop.
|| a rotary table is on the list of things I want to find at a yard
|| sale someday....
||
|| the big disadvantage of a mill for woodworking seems to be slow
|| spindle speeds.
|
| a rotary table is a pain to setup (G) what a hassle to get it right.
| speed is not a big issue use a hss endmill and just be careful
| when you exit the side grain that's when you can get blowout. other
| then that it is not a problem. I don't usually change speed anymore
| if I am not exiting side grain.

Tip: If your setup allows you to plunge to cutting depth at the exit
point, doing so before making the cut that's producing tearout will
usually eliminate the tearout problem.

Corollary: If you have tearout at the beginning of a cut, try plunging
to your cutting depth with the center of the bit at the edge of the
stock.

HTH

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

Tip: If your setup allows you to plunge to cutting depth at the exit
point, doing so before making the cut that's producing tearout will
usually eliminate the tearout problem.

Corollary: If you have tearout at the beginning of a cut, try plunging
to your cutting depth with the center of the bit at the edge of the
stock.

good idea. also using a rougher helps out too.