Drilling On Milling Machine

Hi All,

I am still very new to Milling Machines (metal working as a whole for that matter).

I have a RF45 Clone milling Machine (Zay7045fg).

I have Harold Hall's Book "Lathework, a complete course", I am busy with the first project, the Mini Surface Gauge. It requires to drill 4 x holes 10mm apart on a shaft. I decided to do it on the milling machine.

I used my edge finder to find the edge of the shaft on X and Y to get datum markers.

I advanced the x axis 10mm end center drilled the...

Drilling On Milling Machine