Hello from Lancashire.

[irving2008]

Hi Mike and welcome to the site. We may not be as big as CNCZone (yet) but, as you say, we are UK based and we have a good core of expertise across a wide range of CNC related subjects and always ready to welcome anyone with expertise they can throw in the pot. Is this a hobby workshop?

[Zadig]

irving2008

Thanks for the interest. Yes it is a hobby workshop, I am in the dying throws of building a 4" to the foot traction engine and really fancy doing something with CNC in the not too distant future. My big Shizuoka mill doesn't get worked as it should and I've given some thought to converting it to CNC. I have got the major concepts and principles of CNC fairly sorted in my mind, but theory is one thing and reality is another, so it will be nice to be able ask questions from the sages on a UK forum. As a bit of a warm up, I quite fancy making an attachment for my tool and cutter grinder that will grind the flutes on slot and endmills, as this is a job I don't have much success with when using the manual toothrest method. If this has been done before and there are any threads that you are aware of, I wouldn't mind the "heads up".

Mike