Originally Posted by
handlewanker
Hi Wizz, imagine coming home and saying, "Hey, guess what, I bought a mill".....followed by a deadly silence as she who must be obeyed says, "What the heck do I want a flour mill for, the bread's delivered".
There's just no simple way that anyone can imagine how to explain it's just for fun....unless you have a production run item, just for fun is the best excuse.
One thing's for sure, there'll be no more unaccompanied trips to machinery fairs for you for a very long time.
As far as I can recollect, the XYZ travels are 200 X 125 X200.....small envelope, but if you start at the ICNC-0 model and work round the requirements for all and sundry, pretty soon you'll have a Bridgeport and then some want a longer table on that one too.
I used to doodle on a piece of melamine board a mill for a DIY build that would cover a small job about the size of a CD, a 5" cubic block capacity......circuit boards and model engineering stuff etc, and always the build plan grew bigger and bigger, so you just have to emphasise the direct and immediate need and work to a plan.
You don't have to justify anything when you just want to have fun.
I'm polishing the family jewels at the moment, ready to get a quick redemption appraisal at the local pawn shop, so perhaps the stamp collection and the baggy bottom designer shorts I bought in the 80's and never wore will get added to the pile.
After I explained all the working parts of a CNC mill to my daughter, she said, "Yes, I understand how it works, but what do you want to do with it?".......welllllll, I've played with all my other toys, so this is a newie on the block.....LOL.....I'm never going to grow up.
Ian.