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tinkerer:

--- Quote from: Bernd on December 05, 2009, 12:31:02 PM ---Tinkerer,

I'd get the mill and keep the wood working equipment. Maybe the routers could go. The mill is nothing more than a router made for metal. And I hear wood and metal working machines are interchangeable.  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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Now there is an idea. If I am thinking correctly, on a mill the table moves. If I mount my router verticle and build a table that would move in three directions, I would have a mill. I saw a table at the scrappy from a junked bridgeport, I should have gotten it. Sounds doable, but right now Alabama, Florida is the only thing I will be thinking about for the next three + hours.

Darren:
You should have gotten the table for a source of quality cast iron .....

Buy a proper mill .... like most machines the more rigid they are the better. Cutting metal is not like cutting wood.

I think the suggestion was refering to a metal machine can cut wood just fine, though I'm not sure about that due to spindle speed limitations.

A wood cutting machine is unlikely to be happy cutting metal. Prob too fast for a start.

Bernd:

--- Quote from: Darren on December 05, 2009, 04:15:20 PM ---A wood cutting machine is unlikely to be happy cutting metal. Prob too fast for a start.

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Darren I've cut 1/2" aluminum on my table saw and a block of bronze. Can't find the pics right now. But it can be done.

Bernd

tinkerer:

--- Quote from: Darren on December 05, 2009, 04:15:20 PM ---You should have gotten the table for a source of quality cast iron .....

Buy a proper mill .... like most machines the more rigid they are the better. Cutting metal is not like cutting wood.

I think the suggestion was refering to a metal machine can cut wood just fine, though I'm not sure about that due to spindle speed limitations.

A wood cutting machine is unlikely to be happy cutting metal. Prob too fast for a start.

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I was just kidding about the router. I couldn't pick up the table from the bridgeport or I would have gotten it. I couldn't even pick up the chuck that was in the bin. I did get a huge knurling tool that I will never have a use for except the wheels may be able to be used.
BTW Alabama came through, Now just got to get Texas beat.

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