Re: Surface plates as a base for tooling

Listers:

My company refurbished a Servo Impact desktop mill and mounted it in a
surface plate. It is incredibly accurate. We use it to drill .006" and .004"
dia holes and it works great. We are currently refurbishing another Servo
Impact mill with Geckos and Mach2 and it will receive a surface plate base,
too. We need it for miniature machining for medical devices.

By the way, these little mills are great for the home cnc'er. Most have
ballscrews and are very well made and about the size of a Taig mill. I
bought one off Ebay for $500 without the controller. Throw some geckos and
Mach2 at it and I'm in cnc heaven!

Bill Box