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From the land down under, a small shop made combo horizontal/vertical machining center w/ Mach 3 controller.
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Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).
Ready to make some cardboard cutouts!!!! I wonder why machines are made of cast iron? JS
========== The primary reason appears to be that they have always been made out of cast iron. Great-Great-Great-Grandad used cast iron because that was what he had. It appears with the advances in materials that polymer concrete is the way to go using relatively light sheet welded metal shells as forms.
IIRC there was a thread on this some time back [like 2001]. Ed Huntress provided a lot of information.
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