Quote Originally Posted by m_c View Post
Personally, my plan is an epoxy granite base, linear rails, gang/live tools, and a spindle cartridge.
I'm still trying to decide between a flat or a slant bed. Slant is far better for chip management, but it means I'll need to find/make a couple big precision wedges for machining the base.
Think that would be my approach as well but using a mixture of precision granite surface plates for the surfaces fastened to aluminum structure for positioning/angles etc then cast around these with epoxy granite to give the vibration mass and finished structure.? Think it will be easier this way than trying to cast precision surfaces at the correct angles etc. What ya think.?

Quote Originally Posted by m_c View Post
Jazz, it's a small horizontal mill column, which would normally have a gearbox in the 'window'.
Thanks, I've since found a pic.