2009/6/7 Kirk Wallace <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 23:48 -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > ... snip >> You pretty much need to have a big tombstone fixture around all the >> time. Any small parts, vise, etc. are mounted to the back of the >> tombstone. Visibility and access to the workpiece are a pain. > > Sounds like there could be a down side to the idea.
My dad has a nice little horizontal boring machine that we use for milling. Apart from the fixturing issues, coolant goes everywhere as it runs down the tool then gets flung off the large diameter parts. This is much less of a problem with a vertical mill. -- atp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
