Holding an end mill in the chuck, good or bad idea?

There's a lot of good model engineers who never needed a milling machine and in my particular situation, I would lose more friends, neighbours and reduce value of my home by having a 'Bridgeport'.

So let's start again and I realize the difficulties which arise from having a little early Myford ML and not much else.
Of course, having to accept a Number ONE Morse taper in the tailstock and the spindle sort of makes things difficult-- but not impossible.

In your circumstances, I would mill in what was always the classic way and use what the lathe always came with, that is the faceplate or what Martin Cleeve used and that was a three position milling cutter using either square or round his tool bits.
The odds of a milling cutter working its way out of a three jaw chuck- without a holding ar of some sort is frighteningly high.

As for a vertical slide, there is almost always the need to have a vice to go with it. When push comes to shove, a vertical slide is only a topslide turned through an angle of 90 degrees(or as I mentor, the 4th part of a circle)

Failing that, you can always settle for a strap and a set of blocks. Again, the classic and much loved 'block of metal t'wer that size' and peppered with a variety of holes, tapped threads and whatever was what most of the ACTUAL model designers adopted.

No body had a milling machine until perhaps . Like 'Ned' Westbury and Prof Dennis Chaddock did-- I made mine.

Jon, I see an from you coming through but for others as well, that is my view

Cheers

N

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