Hi all
I've been lurking for a while and its time to pop my posting cherry.
Short story: My dad was an engineer for SKF - he used to take me into the plant when I was a kid. I was always fascinated by the cool stuff that was being made (created) by really talented guys & I always loved the smell (CimCool, I think). So now I'm pushing 50 and have been fabbing things all my life. Some of it pretty crude but all of it did what I told it to
I am currently building a '33 Willys StreetRod...So I think I
need a Mill to make all the one off stuff involved in a project like this.
It looks like the IH will be all the tool I will ever need and I've talked to Gene (new owner) - super nice guy BTW! I also have the chance to buy a JET JMD-18 Round Col. Mill/Drill for <$900 but most of you steer clear of the Round Col machines... Its 1/2 the price but I think the IH is 5X the machine - comments?
Here's my ?'s... where can I learn to run a mill?? My local VOTECH skools don't offer ANY machining classes for the adult student (sux)! Are there videos that you gurus recommend? Anything worth while online? Books that are written for the beginner? Where can I learn the terminology? - What do Parallels do? What does an indexing table do? - see what I mean - SooperNoob!! I hope to be able to be a contributor to this 4M eventually - rather than a sponge...
Any help would be really, well..helpful.
Thanx... Mike