there are a group of folk who post here, that I make sure to read all of their posts because they are the best here, and two have been kind to respond to my comment. I think a video is a good idea, but using good machining technique, id guess 8 minutes could be trimmed from that machining operation, even on my knee mill if it was running, likely more with what appears to be an older matsuura maybe 500 series? then the vid would make folk say "wow" rather than "eww". practical machinist is one of the larger commercial machining forums, and they take pleasure in damning anything mach, even though they still think mach is the same thing it was decades? ago running from the parallel port. artsoft needs to have people see their work performing at best capacity and capability, or the "Hobby" level will continue to define them. and theres nothing wrong with hobby, but this is a hobby video of a machine that I suspect is much more capable than it is shown to be. I don't expect mach to be the million dollar jet blade surfacing machine I used to run, but across the shop was a matsuura 500 in oem shape, and with 2 vises and 2 stops per vise id be expected to yield 20 of these parts shown in the vid per hour likely more. dry milling alum, spending time machining air, and generating paper thin chips does not show off what I think mach can do. perhaps im wrong?