Do I need a tilting mill table?

[C-Bag]

As long as you can do the projects you want to do, it's the right size for you. My benchtop will do every project i want and if/when I hit something I can't do with it, I'll pay a local shop to do it. Comes a point you just have to get off the "bigger/better" merry go round......

So true. My wall is I don’t have an outside shop I can go to, it’s do it myself or not. It was my main movitivation for small and cheap approach. The bigger/better merry go round goes hand in glove with my TAS so I was steeled to it because it’s a cascade. Logistics of moving, more room, worry about overhead space, power requirements different tooling and on and on. And not being or wanting to be a job shop there is little justification for bigger.

 

[ChazzC]

I made friends with a local 1-1/2 man shop last year when I needed some large stock cut down: great guy, interested in what I do and always gives more than I ask for. He’s semi-retired now and has offered me his “small “ CNC mill and a Darex D90 (with air bearing) at excellent prices, but I don’t have the space (unless my wife doesn’t park her car in the garage ever, including during a blizzard - not going to happen).

 

[wachuko]

, …but I don’t have the space (unless my wife doesn’t park her car in the garage ever, including during a blizzard - not going to happen).

Okay, so that is a “maybe” ?

 

[ChazzC]

Okay, so that is a “maybe” ?

Ha! Even if she would go along with this, I'd have to dig her car out every time it snowed, plus the driveway next to her car so that the snow guy wouldn't hit her car with the plow. Too much work in the cold, plus I'd have to listen to her remind me that I wouldn't have to do all of this if I hadn't taken over the entire garage (my car & my Tools).

Don't even suggest that her car goes in the garage: then I have to dig my car out – same results but then my car gets covered in snow.

 

[Firstram]

Buy a lift and park her car under yours

 

[great white]

Buy a lift and park her car under yours

I’d be willing to bet if its only a one (or two) car home garage, it won’t have the ceiling clearance for a car on a lift and another one underneath it…..

 

[ChazzC]

I’d be willing to bet if its only a one (or two) car home garage, it won’t have the ceiling clearance for a car on a lift and another one underneath it…..

OK, then I need to teardown & rebuild the garage: the door barely fits below the ceiling now.

All in all, it would be cheaper to get a divorce and get a small house with a large conditioned garage. The downside of this is that then I wouldn't be able to afford any larger tools. I guess I'll have to make do with what I have.

 

[great white]

....All in all, it would be cheaper to get a divorce....

Been there, done that. It's unlikley you'll be able to buy food after a divorce, especially so if you have kids and she gets custody.

I divorced because it just wasn't working any longer and man, it ruined me financially. Took 15-odd years to get back to where i was.

But in my case; worth it.

IN a divorce, the man (usually) just has to resign himself that the quality of life outweighs the financial security.

I actually thought about buying a warehouse at one point and building an apartment/catwalk in the upper part of the building. Alas, was not to be. I found the future ex-wife before I managed to find a warehouse space and that was all she wrote......still happy with the way it turned out though.

 

[Manual Mac]

No it would NOT be cheaper to get a divorce, done that twice.
yes, OP does need a tilting table.
Just one man’s opinion.

 

[great white]

Really? I didn’t know they came without adjustment.

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I looked at that one, but had concerns about rigidity compared to the non-geared type:



Seems like the gear table sacrifices the center supports in order to get the adjuster in there.

Does it make a difference? Probably not, but always trying to find ways to make the Atlas TH42 more rigid has kind of programmed me to search for items with more supports, not less…