Re: Alternate Mill Geometry?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 06:30:48 GMT, BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> The traditional Mill structure neeeds 80" of space for 40" of travel.

>So the most reasonable
>choice might be a used Horizontal.

To get 40" of travel at the spindle he's probably
still going to need closer to 80", if not more.

Don't forget how wide the ways & column
would be.
80-40=40
40/2 = 20" per side.
The ways must extend beyond the max
column travel a little bit too.

Even that's (80") pushing it IMHO.

Does anyone recall such a narrow column
on any decent machine?
--
Cliff
.

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