Originally Posted by DrBadWrench  hello fellas,
newbie here and looking for help.
i recently purchased a sherline mill and need to some advice. my first projects need to me to fly cut the surface and bore some holes. i know sherline sells these accessories but i want to use a bigger fly cutter and want to use a different boring head.
any suggestions for the fly cutter and i saw a Criterion boring head, would that work on my mill?
so far, the sherline looks like a well made machine, but it seems like im "stuck" only to use their accessories, am i wrong?
thanks again! |
You are going to run into the practical limits of the machine if you try and run tools much bigger than Sherline sells. Not only is the rigidity of the mill at issue, but the motor in the head as well. It's simply not powerful enough to swing big tools.
It's not all bad news, you can get a whole lot of work done with the Sherline stuff, or the Taig or A2ZCNC equivalents. More smaller passes is the name of the game with a machine like this.