Idea from Meprolight

[Dirtlaw]

Using a picatinny rail as an attachment device on your mill for precise drilling and milling.

[ar15barrels]

Using a picatinny rail as an attachment device on your mill for precise drilling and milling.

Drilling and milling of what?
Picatinny attachments?

[Dirtlaw]

Anything that can attach to a picatinny rail. For me a huge deal. For others maybe not so much.

[ar15barrels]

Anything that can attach to a picatinny rail.

You must be new the machining or something if you just figured this out.

You hold things as solidly as you can before machining.
If something mounts to a picatinny rail better than any other way you can hold it, then YES, that's the best way to hold it!

Take a piece of 1"x1" aluminum bar and mill a few inches of picatinny rail on one side of it.
Then you can turn the bar 3 different ways in the vise to have 3 different approaches to the part you clamp on the bar.
Make the bar long enough that the picatinny milled area hangs out of your vise so you can use your vise stop to locate the bar.

[Dirtlaw]

You must be new the machining or something if you just figured this out.

You hold things as solidly as you can before machining.
If something mounts to a picatinny rail better than any other way you can hold it, then YES, that's the best way to hold it!

Take a piece of 1"x1" aluminum bar and mill a few inches of picatinny rail on one side of it.
Then you can turn the bar 3 different ways in the vise to have 3 different approaches to the part you clamp on the bar.
Make the bar long enough that the picatinny milled area hangs out of your vise so you can use your vise stop to locate the bar.

I confess my inadequacy as a machinest though I was stellar as a lawyer. Machining gives me great peace. It is my joy. I will improve!!! Your advice is greatly appreciated. I appreciate all input that allows me to grow.

[ar15barrels]

I confess my inadequacy as a machinest though I was stellar as a lawyer. Machining gives me great peace. It is my joy. I will improve!!! Your advice is greatly appreciated. I appreciate all input that allows me to grow.

All you need to cut your own picatinny rail is a 90 degree double angle cutter and a 3/16" endmill.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125463379780

[kcstott]

Machinists do not "find peace" in machining.
What they find is the source of their smoking, drinking and coffee addictions.

[ar15barrels]

Machinists do not "find peace" in machining.
What they find is the source of their smoking, drinking and coffee addictions.

Maybe that's my problem.
I don't like any of those things.

[kcstott]

Maybe that's my problem.
I don't like any of those things.

I used to, but now it's just coffee. I still don't find peace in running a machine. It's work, nothing more, nothing less.

I find peace in fishing and hunting, sometimes shooting but that's about it.

[pohorsky]

Machinists do not "find peace" in machining.
What they find is the source of their smoking, drinking and coffee addictions.

Ain't that the truth. When you do something day in and day out its not as fun as when it's a hobby.

[Toxic Shock]

Engineer's coffee = coffee with the aspirin already in it.

To the O.P.; take a machine shop course at a local junior college or something like that. You'll learn more in one semester than you'd discover on your own in a dozen years.

[kcstott]

Ain't that the truth. When you do something day in and day out its not as fun as when it's a hobby.

Pretty much. it's one reason I only work on my own stuff anymore.

[BrassCase]

I confess my inadequacy as a machinest though I was stellar as a lawyer. Machining gives me great peace. It is my joy. I will improve!!! Your advice is greatly appreciated. I appreciate all input that allows me to grow.

I sat next to an attorney on a flight who told me his hobby was knife making. I expect to see him on "Forged in Fire" sometime. He really enjoyed it.

[Dirtlaw]

All you need to cut your own picatinny rail is a 90 degree double angle cutter and a 3/16" endmill.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125463379780

Beautiful!!!