re: Lathe work on a mill

Mark:

Many years ago (okay,9 years) , we used to do large quantities of low-bid parts for the Department of Defense. We ran short of lathes so we automated a big old Van Norman horiz./vert. mill. We used a #50 taper adapter and welded it to a blank slightly larger than the backplate on a chuck. We turned it to the correct dimension right on the mill and mounted the chuck. Then we faced 16,000 pcs of 8" discs, 8620 alloy. Of course we didn't have access to all the cheap or free CNC software so we had to use Danplot. As I recall we made quite a nice job of it in the end.
So, yes, it has been done rather successfully.

Paul Jones
CNC on a Budget
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