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[GEOFFREY]

I bet you are right Irving - I missed the ally (aloominum) and "but" (butt?) comments too. My school reports sometimes said " Geoffrey should pay more attention to what is being said". I hope posting that does not come home to haunt me on the MYCNCUK router project thread (I'm sure it will). G.

[soopaman]

Thank you all for the warm welcome I can already see that I'll have lots of fun while learing from here. Thanks again.

P.S. Yes. I live in Boston, Massachusetts ( I'm a city rat...lol)

[dazza]

hello,welcome to the site.
i was in the same boat for a time,i liked the idea of building a vertical mill but settled on knocking up a fixed gantry mill,see image ,im fairly happy with it, its sole jobs for plastics and aluminium and it does what i want.
if i were fixed on a vertical mill now id be inclined to just convert one to cnc

[FatFreddie]

hello,welcome to the site.
i was in the same boat for a time,i liked the idea of building a vertical mill but settled on knocking up a fixed gantry mill,see image ,im fairly happy with it, its sole jobs for plastics and aluminium and it does what i want.
if i were fixed on a vertical mill now id be inclined to just convert one to cnc

I like that design :-) - you say you are "fairly happy" with it - what problems do you have and what changes would you make if you were doing it again?

[dazza]

you say you are "fairly happy" with it - what problems do you have and what changes would you make if you were doing it again?

i shouldnt have said fairly i am happy with it, but there are things id do slightly different,things like having slots ground into the face of the y axis for the rail for easier alignment same with the bed id probably have put a slab of tooling plate down with slots ground in for the x rail.
and i really wish id made provisions for collecting all the coolant fluid and chips rather than worry about it after the build,

[GEOFFREY]

I have seen this machine in the flesh, and it really is rigid, robust and looks very workmanlike. Very impressed, well done. G.

[soopaman]

hello,welcome to the site.
i was in the same boat for a time,i liked the idea of building a vertical mill but settled on knocking up a fixed gantry mill,see image ,im fairly happy with it, its sole jobs for plastics and aluminium and it does what i want.
if i were fixed on a vertical mill now id be inclined to just convert one to cnc

Thank you deisel. I considered a vertical mill configuration because of space constraints and the material I already have available to me. I really like the simplicity of your setup and may adopt a similar setup after reading your build thread (if there is one) and seeing what I would need. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to hearing alot more feedback and advice from you and others in this forum. :-)