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    Get inventive. Works for me... My descriptions might give you some ideas to work round the problem. I considered getting a small CNC mill but there seems to always be stuff I want to do more.

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    I can do anything it just comes down to time and I have very little

    I would need a ally base under whatever im machining so I don't go into the table, so there would be a cost element there to
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    Or plastic. That's what I used. Acrylic works well for base support. Powdery swarf that won't get in the way. Any sheet of scrap plastic like perspex or polycarb will work. Most times I've ever asked questions like this the cost centred on setting up tools, numbers and types of holes. Stuff like what got used as a disposable backing to protect the table never entered into it, that's just stuff the machinist solves on a daily basis whatever the job.

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    providing I don't have to cut the material to size, setting up will take 5mins. coding probably 30mins.

    get something under the material so I don't machine my table, days, as I have nothing so would need to order something in. it is very easy to solve if you have something and I don't
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    Thought you might like this andy_con

    http://www.cncinformation.com/CNCBlo...d-in-a-sphere/


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    Lots of New goodies arrived

    New vice



    New tool holders



    And New Micro tapping head it does m1 to m3

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    Oooh, toools :P

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    I could drop that without the screen breaking! I think you might have a market there

    Keith

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