The mill is an old D&M machine that I had to retrofit to work with Mach 3 software. It's a nice little machine, but I still have to learn how to program it. I have really only done some engraving with it and hope to do more projects in the near future.
I'm taking night classes for metal working and was able to use the schools machines to tap all of the holes on the tooling plate instead of doing them by hand. I also ran the piece under a large face mill on both sides to make sure it was flat before bolting it to my little mill. It was nice being able to program my mill to drill all of the holes for me!
Thanks for the compliments,
Dale P.