Sherline mini mill CNC rotary table
I didn't take the usual barrage of pics along the way. I wasn't making something in particular here - just playing metal pottery wheel with my rotary table. I didn't put a sacrificial riser sheet below this aluminum, and cutting downward in thin layers, I only dropped the mill head when its bit was over the T-slots used for clamping things to the rotary table. Then spinning the table I bit, I could see if I was poking through the metal yet. When I got low enough, I was so close to shaving the entire wheel clear, parts of it tore out, but even with these holes, I didn't nick the rotary table.
Sherline mini mill CNC rotary table
I didn't take the usual barrage of pics along the way. I wasn't making something in particular here - just playing metal pottery wheel with my rotary table. I didn't put a sacrificial riser sheet below this aluminum, and cutting downward in thin layers, I only dropped the mill head when its bit was over the T-slots used for clamping things to the rotary table. Then spinning the table I bit, I could see if I was poking through the metal yet. When I got low enough, I was so close to shaving the entire wheel clear, parts of it tore out, but even with these holes, I didn't nick the rotary table.