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dusty wrote:Milling Machines for Milling...and...Wood Working Machines for Wood Working

Right Tool for the job.

Not exactly and old adage but IMHO still appropriate.

BTW...Did early advertisements for the 10/10E not advertise it as a tool for light milling. Maybe that is why it is a bit better for milling than the Mark 5/V.

Dusty,

I wholeheartedly agree, but the milling was very light and I just wanted to see how it would work out. You're right, the 520 in no milling machine. I did toy with the idea of using my overhead pin router, but thought the 520 would work out better. But, really for anything more than the little I did, one would need a mill.

Talk about light milling...

Got the new toys set up and dialed in. alignment is off by a few thousandths, but I am not going to lose sleep over it.

The piece that is in the vise is one I did before buying the xy table and the vise... So that's why it looks a little wiggly.

I figure with the new setup I will still go with very light cuts in alum or plastic...probably about .030 at a time.

Wish I could attach the pic, but its way too large

Thanks
Geo

eagletattwo wrote: . . .
Wish I could attach the pic, but its way too large

Thanks
Geo

Get 'Irfanview'(free ), reduce the size, then attach.

eagletattwo wrote:.....Wish I could attach the pic, but its way too large

Thanks
Geo

Here's another freebie resizer for Windows users.