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Originally posted by EMC2
Fixitt - Roscal has said yes - if you can't create what he needs, my offer to help stands.
On the top issue - notice my conditionals (wall height, thickness, and thermal bond - also influenced by thermal conductivity of the block).
JD - two ways around your problem, one would require a little ingenuity.
Take the block itself and rotate it in relationship to the end mill's axis in your vice to you create the angle (the ingenuity part). Just rotate the pic I made so the end mill is vertical to see what I mean 
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I already though about that and tried it but my endmills are not long enough. I only have about a inch. If I put the block itself in there at an angle then the endmill holder hits the block before the endmill can get much done. Also the spindal colum on my mill rotates!!! but it still has the same problem with endmill length. That can be solved by using longer endmills but I am not going to buy new ones any time soon. I also want to get a vise that has the axis on it already so i don't have to take the block out of the vise untill it is done. But that is another $100.00+ I don't want to spend right now.
I am in the note taking stage right now. Next winter I will have the reasources and the TIME to do some of this stuff. I will try to work on Brads block when I can though, but I need that holder which is $30 and I am going to wait to see if Fixittt can get some machined through his contacts before I buy one from Sherline.
This is the last weekend i will have to do much, and my mill is down.
Next weekend I have my daughter and Monday i am headed to CA on a road trip job for work. Then it will be road trip after road trip untill next winter.