The company is now offering a tool room CNC knee mill, the Route 66 Task Master. The mill is equipped with the company's Quill Drive, which is said to allow a quick disconnect option between CNC or manual operations. In addition, users can tram the head to the desired angle without the chance of misaligning the quill drive, the company says. X and Y brackets are cast construction, and the ball screws are 0.0005" per foot lead accuracy. The mill uses the Centroid M39 for CNC operations. This control has conversational programming and uses Fanuc-style G Code for processing off-line CAD CAM files.

The mill can run as a three- or four-axis CNC or as a manual machine with a three-axis DRO at the push of a button. According to the company, power requirements are not a problem; the machine runs on 110V which operates the control, and either 220V single phase or 220V 3 phase power for the spindle. This machine will work in a tool room or in a home garage




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