You can figure on adding 7-10K for tooling up a mill. I would recommend ER 16 and ER 32 collet holders If your tool holder holds ten tools then I would have about 15 collet chucks of various lengths and a full set of collet chucks for each ER size plus two to three extra collets in the most common size that you use. ie. 2 extra ER16 1/4", 5/16", 3/8" and 1/2" in ER32 and 1/8", 1/4" 5/16" and 3/8" in ER16. A good 0-1/2" drill chuck, a couple of face mill tools, two D675 KURT Vises, a slitting saw arbor, and some Weldon setscrew tool holders for the largers cutters lik 5/8", .75", 1", 1.125" and 1.25".
Take a look on Ebay for some tool packages and the vises.
Good Luck
Eagle
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You will want all your tooling as short as possible to get the job done. Thus the variation on collet chucks. Collets are more accurate than set screw tool holders so your products are easier to keep in tolerance. I would also suggest that you buy and learn SurfCam for your programming. It's TrueMill feature is worth the cost if you are trying to make money with your machine.IMHO
Eagle
Last edited by lkenney; 12-20-2008 at 07:33 AM.
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