I’m planning to outfit our machine, which we normally use for 3/4" plywood, to do a little bit of metalwork. And yes… the machine is mounted sideways! The goal is to have a removable setup that allows us securely do some workholding for aluminum (or more, if possible) milling, without having to adj…

I don’t have any help for you unfortunately but I’d love to see a few photos of your sideway machine :grin:

Managed to get this setup going Link with video Run with 1/4" single flute 1.25" carbide Micro 100 endmill, no coolant (haven’t got the IPA mist setup yet). 18,000 RPM, 29.93 ft/min feed rate, .1" DOC, .1" WOC. finish wasn’t so great but I roughed it to 0 stock and then took some finishing pass…

Can we just talk about the machine orientation?!

Yes, let’s talk about it! lol. It works surprisingly well, minus a few procedural things you have to get used to. The weight of the gantry X axis (or whatever is traveling up and down in this orientation) is offset by a constant force spring that’s mounted underneath the gantry and routed via pull…

[image] DarkGerbil: I can make a longer post with pics of how we did this whole setup (actually have done two machines in similar style). PLEASE do! :slight_smile:

Your wish is my command, I’ll compile the info about our two builds and make a separate post.

[image] Eric: Can we just talk about the machine orientation?! Ya, no kidding. That is a cool way to save a lot of floor space. Also can see that you could come some ways to really easily load sheet goods into a machine like this.

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Thoughts on mounting a machining fixture plate to PRO4896

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