From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 3/3/2026 12:43 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:10o799a$29dn0$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > Although not a help to you but perhaps a hint, my Shopsmith serves   
   > pretty well as a horizontal or angled boring machine for wood, between   
   > the spindle quill feed and the table elevation screw. Its main advantage   
   > as a drill press is the two tube support, so the head and table can't   
   > twist out of position. The quill feed and depth stop enable very fine   
   > adjustments to the rip fence gap for precise joinery. Most of the panel   
   > cabinet doors I made on it would hold together by friction.   
   >   
   > If you had a spindle with a shell OD of 1" or less it could mount in a   
   > 5C spin index for manual feed.   
   >   
      
   I alluded to this in my initial write up, but I'm not afraid to spend a   
   few hours extra making something if its going to save me 20/30 minutes   
   every time I set it up and use it.   
      
   I approach mold making this was all the time.  If I am cutting one   
   cavity I just do whatever gets the job done.  If I am cutting 20   
   cavities I may spend an hour or two optimizing cut strategies and doing   
   code simulations.  If I am planning to sell the same mold for years I   
   may spend a whole extra day figuring out how to make it more efficiently   
   after the jobs would be otherwise ready to go on the machine.  I might   
   even build or utilize existing fixturing to cut more than one at a time   
   to save time on tool changes.   
      
   --   
   Bob La Londe   
   CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
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