Sherline 2000 CNC Mill

[Jonathan]

I'm black5f on YT as well, basically , a black 5 is a steam engine!

Or at the model railway club I'm a member of it was tea with no milk and 5 sugars!

Make sure your endmills are capable of plunge cutting if thats what you need to do.

Single flute cutters are good at plunging, but I still use ramping (spiral toolpaths) on the router. As long as the ramp angle isn't really steep it's much better.

[black5f]

Or at the model railway club I'm a member of it was tea with no milk and 5 sugars!

I like that! Built a few, only got one left after regretably selling the rest and thats OO, brass scratch built.
But still have my black 8, O gauge, never got painted, weighs 8lbs, fully sprung.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/4933236...7625918196683/

If you browse abit, the Jinty is same construction technique but finished, still got a half built Scott somewhere.

Single flute cutters are good at plunging, but I still use ramping (spiral toolpaths) on the router. As long as the ramp angle isn't really steep it's much better.

Oh yes, even better! My very very old motion card wont do that, 2D circles at 1/2 meter a second,xy yz xz no problem, spirals have to be done in small xyz interpolated steps, RS232 = sloooowwww. Which is why I'm really interested in a cheap pid servo controller doing 480Mbits instead of 9600 baud.

Tom