My wife gets freaked out by the chop saw. I confess that if I can cut material in a less dangerous way, all the better.
I need to cut a 30 degree angle on some .99" aluminum square material. An alternative strate4gy is put the material in a mill vise on the rotating table and run a carbide end mill through the material after turning the rotary table to 30 degrees.
I am working up to this because I am still easily fatigued.
Part of the set-up is getting the workpiece exactly at a right angle to the mill table. Here is the workpiece in the mill vise on the rotary table.
Now squaring the workpiece to the mill table. I used a square to get the mill vise square to the Z axis:
The next step is to zero the Y-axis at the end of the workpiece, ask the rotary table to turn 30 degrees and move the end mill to 1.75" cos 30 and slice across. I will write some code with a bash script to make repeated cuts .01" deeper each time until I have cut through it.
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