Mill -> Lathe

Tom Benedict wrote:

>
> I've got a Taig CNC mill with the Microproto controller. I got EMC
> working fine with three axes (I'm having little to no luck getting the
> fourth axis working, but that's neither here nor there.)
>
> Last night, just for grins, I turned the mill head 90 degrees, mounted a
> lathe toolpost on my mill bed, and brought the spindle down until it was
> level with the lathe tool. In effect I made my mill into a poor-man's CNC
> lathe.
>

Why did you rotate the head 90°?

I do lathe work in the mill using the normal mill head orientation, just
move the z axis up and down to correspond to lathe x axis.

No tailstock, of course.

Elliot