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Most of it'll be in a future build log, but unfortunately I need to buy a car before any machines, tools or stock. I might be able to start by November.

I'll figure out some polishing stuff, I will need it anyway for a variety of things.

Good thing I have enough ram, all my chrome tabs are using 6 of it. I will keep tabs open of the blackener and the aluminium paint. I will probably use the blackener for most of it and the paint for smaller bits, like accents.

I will most likely go with the blackener, mainly because the anodizing kit still requires a bunch of stuff, such as a gallon of battery acid, which gets very pricey. And I can easily go with black. Are there different colors of blackener (whitener, purple...r, ect)?

Still, I don't want to go through the effort to do it, and I'm is thinking several months in advance, or more.

I'd rather not bother with craigslist if I can. I want to do it myself or have someone official do it, not someone who happens to be able to do it in their garage.

How would I accomplish the chemical blackening? (Such as required products and process)

The only companies that I have found (local and not local) only do it for companies making a bunch of parts, not some nobody that will eventually have a lathe and mill.

I will want to anodize a couple of aluminium parts at some point, are there any companies that I could contact and ship those parts to and have them anodize the parts?

I like manual machines much more than CNCs for multiple reasons that I can't quite explain.

It's more of, the quality of my drill press is bad and it is damaged and the mill will suffice for many of the things I want to do, including many things I haven't thought of yet. Also, I am more familiar with mills than X-Carves, judging on the fact that I have never even heard of them before.

I also want the mill as a replacement for my drill press and so I can line up holes easier.

That's the only reason I gave it even a minute of thought, for me, the main putoff is not being able to use R8 collets and the instability of the x/y table on the drill press' table. And for the fact that my drill press' shank is a little bent and the jacobs chuck can't even hold a twist drill without slipping while cutting through 1/4" plastic. Recently I won a nice set of twist drills, I haven't put them in that drill press because I want to be able to use them afterward.

Keep in mind that I was thinking of sticking an x/y table on a drill press, so the extra hassle is not much for me.

Well, the sketch in the picture is designed for a full size ATX motherboard, I am planning on buying either a micro-ATX or mini-ITX motherboard for this project, then I will probably stick a massive Vega card on top of it, making it look a little disproportional.

I still have yet to figure everything out. The picture gives you an idea of what I want to do, but this is very unfinished and is meant for hardware that I am no longer going to use, and no, the whole thing will not be milled out of a single chunk. Also, I forgot space for cable management and I didn't get to designing legs.

So what are the markings on the dials? Is one tick more than .001", or is one full turn less than .100"?

If you look closely at one of the pictures for the lathe, the crossfeed wheel does not go to .100 like it would if it was Imperial, and it has metric tolerances printed on it, along with Imperial.

That's why I put it in the quotation marks, I shall call it the Imperial system now.

I am use to the maximum amounts that I should mill/turn in the standard system, and I don't want to have to think in two different measurement systems every day. I have to use the standard system in my machining class and at work, then I would be switching to metric when I get home, and that WILL cause me to make mistakes, especially on cheaper machines.

Also, the mill needs to support R8 collets, such as these.

I need a mini (desktop) lathe and milling machine because I am planning on making my own case and doing a build log on it. I found one of each (Mill) (Lathe) that would work for me, except that they are metric, despite the product pages being exclusively in the "standard" system. Unfortunately, I am American and my school and most everything else uses the standard system and I really don't want to have to learn to use metric for machining, especially when I have to use standard for work/school every day. So, are there any lathes or mills that anyone can find that meet my needs?

I don't see that anywhere, it might not yet be known.

Consider me convinced (Link)

Do they have lists like passmark's of all the tested products? That's all I use it for.