Other things to think about, if you haven’t already picked up on them in other threads (or your own personal experience):
- Keep your Z axis as short as you can
- Get Loctite for your grub screws
- If you’re set on milling aluminum with endmills, keep it as small as you feasibly can
- You will likely have better success with some sort of speed control and air assist than any sort of lubrication
- Loctite + Grub Screws
- You’re dealing with an unfeeling robot that has a potentially lethal spinning chunk of metal, assume it wants to kill you
- It’s also got a computer for a brain, assume it knows how to start a fire and will do so as soon as you look away
- Unless you like chasing oddly stepped shapes, put Loctite on your grub screws
- If the goat arrives before the initiation instructions, acceptable alternatives and/or inspiration can be found in this thread
- Did I mention that you might want to consider Loctite on your grub screws? Those buggers have a nasty habit of getting loose and throwing things off