Chris..good point. I should have mentioned, I was planning on mounting the part in horizontal direction for these cuts. The properl mounting (to accomodate the Y travel "zone") is mandatory. Hence Syils America response is probably accurate.
I assume what you are referring to is...when you tilt the head horiz., the thickness of the head eats up a lot of space between the spindle and the table, right? If so, then I understand why you suggest loosing about half the Y travel. The solution would be to mount the part higher on the table, assuming your goal is to use nearly all of the 9" of Y axis travel. Are we on the same page here? Simple if we had a machine in front of us, huh :-)
BTW, the SX3 is still backordered... Syil mentioned they are expecting 30 more soon. People must be happy with em...
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