Hi All
This old Woodchuck of mine does not seem capable of using a rotary table of
more than 8 1/ 2 inch dia. The cutters just don't reach. Any suggestions
please
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Roger
Something seems to have happened to my reply, and indeed ,your reply ??? I
must have done a correction on mine the wrong way (Quite normal for me )
However I have the Axminster extension which is quite good, also uses ER20
collets so that I can use metric shanked cutters including milling
Good day to you Richard,
I have needed to work closer to the middle bars before so I mounted on
top of both the head stock and tail stock pieces. That way I was able
to use that platform as the table and where you would be able to mount
the rotary table. I was milling a repeated design on th
Wonderfully said Mike and I extend the same: “To all my friends for whom I have
met and those I have yet to met. I wish upon you the joy of the season, the
thrill of creation, and the honor of God and Family. Be blessed my friends.
Give thanks!”
Nice quiet day in the shop getting ready for
Make a saddle that mounts the router lower between the top rails to get closer
so you need less extension for the router and mount a rotary table on top of
the inner rails and you can have as big a dia as you wish sort of like the
circle cutting centre for the legacy mill
Bill
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Has anyone used their LOM to mill Aluminum using end mills ?
Me, not having a milling machine thinks it can be done using very light
cuts
I have a z axis with a DRO running a PC 7518. What do you think ?
Peter
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HI Peter
Yes it has been done before... but the Legacy is not built to handle this kind
of job. The stresses and tolerances needed for control , even soft metals,like
Alum. cutting, would be very dangerous on the Legacy. I would not rec-emend it.
Depending on the job needed to be done, a good r
I have successfully used the legacy to mill aluminium but I defiantly would not
recommend it unless your an experienced metal machinist
I used a carbide end mill and ran the router at its slowest speed I had a stop
at each end of the cut and had everything very heavily clamped and had all
leadc
I was thinking of mounting my drill press vice down to a table attached to the
lower rails with a piece of aluminum bar stock that I wanted to mill, lock the
x axis and use the y & z axis with a small 1/8" carbide end mill as sort of a
poor mans milling machine taking small cuts. I thought if
There possibly other ways of doing it email me off list if you want to chat
further on this
Bill bulke...@mmnet.com.au
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