Originally Posted by MrRage I was talking to an old machinist a while back and he was telling me that he would use the knee of the mill instead of the quill for Z motion just because the quill was better off being bolted in place, in his opinion. But I guess its all preference. |
The main problem, and I think IJ found this out, is that there is huge inertia involved when moving the mass of the table, knee and weight of the part, when executing rapid moves such as peck drilling etc.
Al.