Mr Science
Plastic
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- Mar 2, 2019
Hopefully just asking won't get me banned here (haha) but I would like some 'considered' expert opinion. After playing around with some CNC setups I was wondering why i couldn't use my home shop router table (it's actually something called a 'router lift' installed in my working surface - a rigid aluminum cage holding a router with a 'precision' worm gear driving the vertical axis). Anyway - it occurred to me - why can't i use this (if the assembly is stiffened up accordingly) with an end mill to machine metals with (also given appropriate precautions) - it DOES have the nice added benefit of forcing you to have the work face DOWN and the business end of things being out of sight and out of the line of fire when working ...
any thoughts? has anyone tried this? I'm just curious since it seems that only since the onset of CNC have routers been used for machining metal. Why can't it be done 'manually'?
any thoughts? has anyone tried this? I'm just curious since it seems that only since the onset of CNC have routers been used for machining metal. Why can't it be done 'manually'?