Thanks for the explanation, Dave! IIRC you mentioned in another thread that your piloted valve was the easiest to open yet? Excellent work.I received my 1.25" slab of 6061 yesterday. I'm hoping to start on a receiver for a build. Working on finishing my BT65 side cocking lever right now. It's a pain trying to machine parts on a mill when you've removed the dial indicators on the X,Y axis. I thought I had it figured out, but it's still a pain trying to learn g-code. (Side note, Y axis isn't functioning properly, so I switched Y and Z stepper motor leads to help confuse things even more.) Needless to say it is making my head hurt.
I’ve seen people use the cheaper digital calipers as a poor boy digital readout. That might be an option in your case. That would drive me nuts not being able to machine manually. The only time I mess with cnc (usually) is when I make a bullet mold on the lathe. Dave