I got the SST lube-cube and love it. However, the stock reservoir is not good for alcohol based coolants. I had to swap mine out with a polypropylene based res. Polycarbonate gets really brittle from contact with alcohol.
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I do love this forum. Another “good to know”.
Care to provide a link to the reservoir referenced?
This is what I got. I just took all the hardware off of the original res and put it on this.
You want the version without the pressure relief button.
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Care to share the lesson with us?
Thanks Griff
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Found some drill time today, last half of 3100 or so holes! Now I just need to chamfer and threadmill the 2nd half.
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Looking good!
I used a small water filter housing and NTP to 5/16 quick connect pneumatic tubing hooked up to a compressor. Outlet is a 1/8 tube pushed in to the 5/16 that acts as a straw inside the housing. I built a weird janky system where the air for both the mister and air last comes from the same tube with a y splitter but from testing with a generic Amazon mister it works pretty well.
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Ok, so the container is pressurized, that should make the flow much more consistent.
It’s threading time, finally!
8k, 1000mm/min, 1mm thread pitch, 1.24 pitch diameter offset, multiple passes, 2, 0.15mm stepover, spring pass.
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And…ta-da, it’s finished! I am really happy with this, Works perfectly with the Saunders mod vises. It’s soooo shiny too!!
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That is really nice work there, very shiny, I’d spend as much time cleaning it as milling 
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And now we’re all looking forward to the artistic projects that come off of your shiny new fixture plate!
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We’ll see, i suppose cutting gears and such could be called artistic?
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Wow Griff, that looks amazing! How much was the giant piece of aluminum?
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~$300 + shipping from Midwestern Steel. ATP5 cast plate.
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Plus $2k in time and 2 years off your life from stress 
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Some truth to that.
But, no point in having a machine like an HDM if you are not going to learn to exploit its capabilities.
Having managed this I am confident I can knock out the same or variations thereof easily with minimum stress/time. Example, I’ve already cut a secondary wasteboard to protect the plate when working on wood projects.
It’s all FUN stuff as far as I’m concerned.
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Absolutely. I would have been nervous with every plunge though.
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