Cheers. Stupid thing is I did have the part to hand, easily could have verified it. Oh well, lesson learned!
Yeah, you can see some details of the setup in this thread but it's pretty bog standard mister type setup really.
I use a variety of end mills, but at the moment mostly 6mm 3 flute roughing for adaptive (currently using 8mm depth of cut, 1.5mm radial engagement, 1800mm/min) and then either 6mm single flute or 6mm 3 flute for finishing.
I'm waiting for some new end mills and some motivation to re-cut the front plate after my motor mount boo boo, but in the mean time I made a start on a low profile machine vice I designed. Haven't been very happy with the low profile vice I already have and want something much stronger and hopefully more accurate.
This is the overall design, today I made the fixed end:
Basically it uses a bolt pattern on the bed for alignment dowels and bolting down, but gives access right down to bed level (or below with a cut out I suppose!) which will be useful when trying to machine or drill taller pieces. I have since tweaked the design slightly to allow the travelling end to be bolted down as well if required for extra rigidity.
Missed taking a photo of the first bits, but basically vertically it is made up of 2 pieces of plate as I don't have any tools long enough to cut the whole thing in one pass and it allows me a bit more flexibility in how it is made.
After machining the two pieces and bolting them together, I popped them into the machine again and faced them down by 0.2mm on each of the main faces to give a nice flat and square face.
And after a quick tickle with some 1500 grit wet and dry:
Once I invest in some anodising equipment the plan will be to give this a nice black anodised finish... assuming the thing works as expected.