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Re: WCD milling pockets for bearing blocks

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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
All of our mills have a massive piece of aluminum with 2 rows 1/2-13 for bolting vices and other clamps too without dialing them in. It's really convenient, but it looks expensive to buy a piece of aluminum that big and ground flat.
The material itself is only half the price of something like that. The other half is the holes. making it flat is a few simple facing operations on a cnc mill.
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