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Hi. The mini knee mill project left me with a left over headless X1. So after some work it is now a miniature desktop EDM. Works out quite well.

The SC2 mini lathe bed is hollow cast iron. Strength and rigidity can be significantly improved by fillings; the material is epoxy bonded quartz gravels. Photos:

A quick mod to the X1 mill to allow for quick tool change. The use of thrust bearing ensure smooth operation. Even for crigorously tightened tooling, release only calls for a smooth twist.

Finally got around to DRO for the Y axis. Photos:

SIEG SU1 knee mill comes with a milling head that lacks a quill. To do horizontal milling requires dissasembly of the vertical head, taking it out and plugging it into the horizontal mounting position; quite a hassle. The SIEG X1 comes with a nice milling head, albeit at a smaller Morse-2...

This pair of Nanos were setup as micro-drilling station. As shown below, one in the vertical (mill/drill) config, the other in horizontal (lathe) configuration; both permanently affixed to the table top. These little machines were quite handy for micro-drilling operations, e.g. drilling holes...

Made a rotary table for the mini drill-press. Rotary base is recycled from optical instrumentation; chuck is from a 6-in-1 combo tool. Chuck flange plate, vertical base, and horizontal base are milled from 6061-T6 aluminum alloy. Horizontal plate has a 10mm through hole that is aligned to a...

Decided to make a small boring head for my SIEG SU1 milling machine. 16mm straight shank; 30mm OD, from 7075 aluminum alloy. Slide block/ tool holder / gib strip from brass. This project is underway, just some photos of progress so far...

Milled out of some scrap aluminum alloy ... Nowadays I find myself in the habit of centering around the micrometer for majority of manual lathe work; i.e. target measurement fixed in micrometer; a digital caliper reads the incremental/left over amount; and the DRO sets the actual feed amount...

Hello. Here's my workshop, mainly for micro-scale prototyping and scale model building.