01-17-2015, 08:41 PM
If you have the room, I'd keep it as a pantograph and seek out a true milling machine. While the table can handle weight, that doesn't mean it'll make a good milling machine because the slides were meant for positioning not machining. On a pantograph the spindle moves around the workpiece. on a milling machine the spindle stay fixed and the work moves around the spindle.
OK, I know that isn't true on a bed mill or gantry mill per se, but talk of making that into a milling machine scares me.
OK, I know that isn't true on a bed mill or gantry mill per se, but talk of making that into a milling machine scares me.