Quote Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt View Post
More interesting is the table/bed. Are you going to make it or buy it? You might start a permanent search on ebay and see what it trawls up while you are figuring the rest out. The bed from a toolroom mill could be neat.
How about suds, you must have suds to get the heat out of the tool tip, lube it when cutting steel, block the oxide build up when cutting aluminium, stop the melt when cutting perspex and generally wash the cuttings away before they get dragged back in between tool and work piece.
I am looking on ebay regularly but I may try and machine something from cast iron.

In terms of cooling, different options, will look at a misting type setup and potentially higher pressure flood coolant.