Milling Machine

[huntwithastick]

Anyone out there using a milling machine for milling the limb beds on 3 piece take downs?  If so, what type of machine?  Any suggestions on the smallest mill that would work for this?

[Blake Dustin Adams]

There are people out there that use them.  Most of the big companies now use CNC to at least rough out there product.

You wouldn't need a very big machine to do what you are asking.  What you need to look for is the travel of the bed and the z-axis clearance.  Also you would probably want a vertical mill.

If you want to buy a machine buy the BIGGEST machine that you can afford and have space for.  This is stated for two primary reasons:
1)You will always be restricted to the size of a small machine.
2)You can do even really small thing on a big machine, and you have the size to do big projects and as soon as you have a machine and start using it you will always get an idea for a big project and wish you had a bigger machine.

At least that is what I get from my experience in machining.