Hey!
You are back!!
Hope you understand I was just joking around with you!
But you still never told us why there is a 100 pound weight limit in any part of Texas, not self-imposed by you sticking with USPS only?
What if you needed a new Ice Box from Monkey Ward, or wood stove from Sears & Sawbuck??
Or a new flywheel for your 1926 John Deere D tractor from Waterloo, Iowa?
How would you get it there??
Seemingly it might be more useful to buy a micro lathe 1st?
I'd hate to steer you wrong.
But I bought a Chinese micro-lathe.
I also bought a decent cross-feed milling table for my pretty decent floor stand drill press.
And it works fairly decent for light duty milling.
But it is certainly not a real milling machine by a very large stretch of the imagination!
And I wouldn't try to mill dovetail sight slots in a $350 1911 slide with it!
It just seems there are a lot more things I need to center-drill, or turn down to size, or chuck up & polish, or shape round & tapered, or chase the threads on with a thread chaser file.
Then there is to mill square slots, and long grooves, and cross-slots, and stuff.
(The micro lathe doesn't cut thread so hot, unless you can read Chinese instructions to set up the gear sets right??
I can't!)
I once was a Tool & Die machinist, and had access to a whole shop full of machine tools.
But I probably made or repaired more parts on a lathe in a month then I made on a mill in three years.
rc