I may have a little bracket I need to make soon that is fairly simple, and I could do it fairly easy without a 4th axis, just mill, rotate 90 and and re reference and mill some more, rotate 90 and and re reference and mill some more, etc...
and while that is very doable, two things keep jumping into my mind:
  1. it seems like it may be a bunch easier with a 4th axis...
  2. and it seems like a perfect excuse to get a 4th axis (ie I just need one now )

so I was looking at Tormach's offerings (ie I want easy plug and play... I don't want to cobble anything together...), so what are the pro's and con's of the 8in vs 6in? is there any particular reason to go with one over the other?
I was thinking of going with the 6" just because that is all I need right now, and I was kind of thinking I like my back (I am guessing the 6" is lighter/easier to get on the table)
but is that being a bit short sighted? it looks like there are more cool accessories for the 8"?

what about the tilt? how does that work? how do you tell sprut7 that it is tilted?


actually, how to you sprut with the 4th axis in the first place?