How to Square Up Stock on the Milling Machine

[TomG]

(06-23-2012, 02:57 PM)ScrapMetal Wrote: We're going to have to start calling you "TubalG".

Great video, even I can follow it.

I have one question though, (my ignorance not a deficiency of the vid) and that is how one "zeros" the depth of the cutter. You've already gotten the sides square. Now you put the piece back in the vise to cut it down to size (measures at 1.095" and you want it at 1.000"). How do you set the cutter/"Z axis" (I'm assuming the knee instead of the quill) so that it's at zero for the 1.095" piece?

Hope that made some kind of sense.

Thanks much,

-Ron

I'm not going to run with the "even I can follow it" comment since Bill has been doing such a good job of it on the lapping arbor thread.

When you flip the part and mill the opposite side, just set the dial on your Z axis to zero. Then you can take the part out, measure it, put it back in the vise and it will be in the same position as before, assuming you hammer it down on the parallels. I like to set the dial to whatever I have to take off so I don't forget the number, but that's just me.

Tom