Cub junkie
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My Moms basement
I have a "flatbed" Atlas that was popular in the '60's. I bought it in the '80's and got a lot of tooling with it. My real machinist buddy told me at the time I got a hell of a deal and he could make it do anything but I'm still a hack. I wish I would have paid more attention to his tutoring. (He is gone now) I also have a table top mill/drill that is popular for hacks like me. It does have an R8 spindle but I haven't really done much with it except drill holes. I do fishmouth tubing on my Atlas with a vee block I made adapted to my milling vice using fine pitch roughing mills. I don't make acute angles, mostly perpendicular cuts but its nice and accurate for fuselage cross members. I don't even use lube on the cut as I don't want to clean up the oil mess. I figure a chinese mill bit from Enco for 15 bucks is collateral damage and the cost of doing business. Enough thread drift from me.