Stand for milling machine

Persuade your friend that the storage cupboard you make is better for his purposes, and swap it for the real thing?

Thanks. I wish I could weld.

JA

Milling produces vibration, much more than that produced by turning, and a solid, heavy stand can help to reduce this. Milling needs lots of accesories, vices, angle plates, cutters and jigs and everything else, again much more than turning, so lots of storage space is very useful. And if the storage of these many and heavy items is in the stand then that tends to solve 2 problems at once.

Rod

Thank you for all the replies.

I am lucky enough to own a large workshop fully equipped with MIG and TIG, so will be a welded steel box section stand, probably 1.5” section, taking into account all of the above.

The mill is currently sat on a steel workbench but I would rather relocate it onto its own stand and reclaim part of the bench back!

You can do much better than the warco offering. Remember, theirs is made down to a price and for maximum profit.

Ymost all parameters.ours may turn out to be much the same cost, but streets ahead on

That's a lot of work for no benefit. The CNC mill sits on the four pads in the corners. So most of the load falls on the end frames. The way it is designed the end frames are stable without the welds. The welds simply keep things aligned, they don't take a significant load, as they would if the joints were mitred.

Andrew

Plus the open ended tubes may come in handy for storage

If doing it with Box then diagonals like Andrew has are better than using a steel sheet to provide triangulation as it may drum and vibrate. If It were me making one I'd space the legs front to back to suit some full extension draw runners and have several draws for storage of cutters and tooling, saves ferreting about in the back of a cupboard and keeps swarf off your tooling.