16 October 2012

New mill! I’ve been waiting for this for a while, and it finally arrived. Getting it off the truck and into the garage was the first challenge (it weighs 2000lbs), followed by figuring out how to get it off the pallet and into position. I was able to get it wired up and running the same day, but the rest of the setup will have to wait as I have many projects on the go – shown is a custom chromoly Lefty axle for a single-sided mountain bike fork. The new mill will give me more machining power (especially for new tooling), and allow me to dedicate the old one as a mitring machine, which will hopefully speed up my process a little.