I have a creative friend who pulled off a real neat thing with his CNC mill. He needed to turn some pieces that were only practical with a CNC lathe, which he don't have. You'll love this, he mounts the lathe (a 9x20 ENCO) length wise on the mill table and bolts it down (zeroed in for X). He removed the drive train off the saddle and the screw out of the cross slide, so both axis of the lathe move freely. He then made a bracket to fix the far side of the cross slide to the head of the mill. When you move the mill table in X it moves the saddle up and down the lathe ( moves the lathe under the saddle) and of course moving the mill in Y moves the cross slide depth of cut. Of course you disable the z axis on the mill, the height is set with the knee handle and locked. You turn on the lathe spindle (not the mill spindle!) normally and use the mill's CNC controls to cut the part! He cut some 3" diameter pieces very nicely into an ornate multi curved part. Surprisingly it is holding .0005 tolerances just as the mill does. I will try to get a .jpg or .mpg of the set up.
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