I'm a very satisfied customer of m-machine metals.

Give them a try.

Jon

Bright or black?

I’ve used this supplier and I have no complaints

I didnt know they had a website shop actually £4 cheaper than what i stated above from their ebay shop. Must be adding in paypal/final value fees to their prices on ebay.

Lucky for me, they are going to be ten mins up the road when I move..( pretty soon..)

Sure, I'll pay them a visit and say hi…..

Here near my shop is a dealer that buys redundant metals of all sorts and resells them at a price less than a third of the cost of new, isn't there metal mongers that do the same over by you guys?

All the above prices seem way over the top to me. Luckily living in the Midlands I am close to many steel stockholders and tend to buy from their offcut rack for cash.

+1

No point in having a horizontal mill if you don't use it to make swarf; 1" wide cutter and ½" DOC:

All my S&F cutters and slab mills are secondhand, via Ebay. Many still had the wax coating,so either new or reground. Don't think I've paid more than £10 for a cutter. Of course there are always the dreamers asking silly money, and cutters with teeth missing, but it should be possible to find decent cutters at a sensible price.

I have the wherewithal to sharpen S&F cutters, although thus far I haven't needed to.

Andrew

Don't forget the dovetail is half an inch deep so a 2 inch block of metal will only give you an inch and a half of lift, which isn't enough to be worth the trouble IMHO. Mine is 3 inch square but was carved from a 3 x 3.5 inch block. It's been ideal although 3 x 4 material would be easier to get and would give you an extra half inch. And we could all do with an extra half inch.

If you make it long enough, you can avoid swapping in the horizontal arm when changing modes. Just hang your arbor support from the underside. Mine is, but I would not want mine made of steel – it is already heavy enough as it is!