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Removing the ejector makes milling the cylinder easy, but milling the ejector separately seems hard. It's not at all obvious how to fixture it for milling. And getting the depth of cut the same for the cylinder and ejector is more prone to error if you do them separately.

The videos I've seen seem to leave the ejector in place:

e.g.:

[MEDIA=youtube]WVfHKkAAE50[/MEDIA]
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfHKkAAE50

[MEDIA=youtube]rHinii-8fdQ:300[/MEDIA]
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHinii-8fdQ&t=300

[MEDIA=youtube]DsyBBnfW_3g[/MEDIA]
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyBBnfW_3g

Which means it's held in place from the ejector rod, it doesn't need anything special to hold it in place, or the speed/style of the end mill is such that it cuts without lifting.

I can easily imagine there being some secret sauce that places like TK custom use to make sure their work is top notch that they don't want to share.

<blockquote data-quote="milktree" data-source="post: 8072100" data-attributes="member: 10900">Removing the ejector makes milling the cylinder easy, but milling the ejector separately seems hard.&nbsp; It&#039;s not at all obvious how to fixture it for milling.&nbsp; And getting the depth of cut the same for the cylinder and ejector is more prone to error if you do them separately.The videos I&#039;ve seen seem to leave the ejector in place:e.g.:[MEDIA=youtube]WVfHKkAAE50[/MEDIA]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfHKkAAE50" target="_blank">View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfHKkAAE50</a>[MEDIA=youtube]rHinii-8fdQ:300[/MEDIA]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHinii-8fdQ&amp;t=300" target="_blank">View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHinii-8fdQ&amp;t=300</a>[MEDIA=youtube]DsyBBnfW_3g[/MEDIA]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyBBnfW_3g" target="_blank">View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyBBnfW_3g</a>Which means it&#039;s held in place from the ejector rod, it doesn&#039;t need anything special to hold it in place, or the speed/style of the end mill is such that it cuts without lifting.I can easily imagine there being some secret sauce that places like TK custom use to make sure their work is top notch that they don&#039;t want to share.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="milktree, post: 8072100, member: 10900"] Removing the ejector makes milling the cylinder easy, but milling the ejector separately seems hard. It's not at all obvious how to fixture it for milling. And getting the depth of cut the same for the cylinder and ejector is more prone to error if you do them separately. The videos I've seen seem to leave the ejector in place: e.g.: [MEDIA=youtube]WVfHKkAAE50[/MEDIA] [i][size=2][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfHKkAAE50]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfHKkAAE50[/url][/size][/i] [MEDIA=youtube]rHinii-8fdQ:300[/MEDIA] [i][size=2][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHinii-8fdQ&t=300]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHinii-8fdQ&t=300[/url][/size][/i] [MEDIA=youtube]DsyBBnfW_3g[/MEDIA] [i][size=2][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyBBnfW_3g]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsyBBnfW_3g[/url][/size][/i] Which means it's held in place from the ejector rod, it doesn't need anything special to hold it in place, or the speed/style of the end mill is such that it cuts without lifting. I can easily imagine there being some secret sauce that places like TK custom use to make sure their work is top notch that they don't want to share. [/QUOTE]

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