What is milling?

[PaintNoob]

Can someone please explain what the milling on a gun is. "Milling"

[behemoth]

Use a dictionary, son.

Thats what god gave them to us for.

[Grey Goose]

Milling refers to how the gun is cut, the patterns, etc. All guns start their life as stock aluminum bars. Sometimes guns are milled after their original manufacture/milling to reduce more weight or cut in personal designs. Mostly for weight.

[paint magnet]

As has already been stated, most guns, with some notable exceptions (like Tippmanns, which are made out of cast aluminum, Automags, which are made of stainless steel, and Brass Eagle guns, which are made of plastic) start out as a block of aluminum, which is then shaved down in a mill, for cosmetic purposes as well as to make room for the internals of the gun.

*edit*
A mill, in this instance, being a device used to remove metal, not a factory for making cloth.

Use a dictionary, son.

Thats what god gave them to us for.

Milling - n.
1.The process or business of grinding grain into flour of meal
2.The grinding, cutting, or processing of metal, cloth, etc. in a mill
3. a.) The process of ridging the edge of a coin, etc. b.) The ridging thus produced; milled edge
4. The circular or random motion of or as of a herd or crowd

That clears up the definition as it applies to paintball perfectly, doesn't it?

Oh, and while you're at it, use the apostrophe key and the "Shift" key in conjunction with the letter "G." That's what God gave them to us for, after all.

[CoolHand]

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'Nuff Said.

[Grey Goose]

Oh, and while you're at it, use the apostrophe key and the "Shift" key in conjunction with the letter "G." That's what God gave them to us for, after all.

Is that the equivalent of a forum bunkering? :)

CoolHand, awesome post.

[Arstron]

*wonders if that is coolhands machine*

[CoolHand]

*wonders if that is coolhands machine*

Nah, this is CoolHand's machine:







Which, I might add, is for sale at the moment.

Gots me the hots for a new Haas machine. Oh yeah.

[luke]

I too have been looking into a new Haas mill. What model are you considering?
I'm considering the TM1-P. I would like one of the larger machines but the $$$ will be the deciding factor.

There is a dealer less than 100 miles away.

[Jaan]

Milling - n.
1.The process or business of grinding grain into flour of meal
2.The grinding, cutting, or processing of metal, cloth, etc. in a mill
3. a.) The process of ridging the edge of a coin, etc. b.) The ridging thus produced; milled edge
4. The circular or random motion of or as of a herd or crowd

As in; All the newbies did the first game was mill around the flag station the entire time.

Oh, and while you're at it, use the apostrophe key and the "Shift" key in conjunction with the letter "G." That's what God gave them to us for, after all.

Not so fast ... an encyclopedia is a good reference too, as is Google:

"The names of gods are capitalized, including Allah, Vishnu, and God. The word god is not capitalized if it is used to refer to the generic idea of a deity, nor is it capitalized when it refers to multiple gods, e.g., Roman gods. There may be some confusion because the Judeo-Christian god is not referred to by a specific name, but simply as God. Other names for the Judeo-Christian god, such as Elohim and Lord, are also capitalized."

This is a pretty good article on that too:

http://atheism.about.com/od/doesgodexist/a/capitalization.htm

You're spot on about the missing apostrophe in the contraction though (c:

[CoolHand]

I too have been looking into a new Haas mill. What model are you considering?
I'm considering the TM1-P. I would like one of the larger machines but the $$$ will be the deciding factor.

There is a dealer less than 100 miles away.

Me too. I like the single/three phase, and the full enclosure. I might spring for the VF-0 though, ya never know. lol What's another eight grand when you're spending fourty, right?

I REALLY want an 8-10k rpm spindle though, so I might have to try for something else.

Also looking at a Sharp with a Fanuc Oi-M control. Know anything about them? They're fairly new, so I'm having a hard time scraping up research. But, I mean, it's a Fanuc, it would have to try pretty hard to be a bad control.

Isn't technology wonderful?

[paint magnet]

As in; All the newbies did the first game was mill around the flag station the entire time.

My point exactly. Looking it up in the dictionary does little to explain it as it pertains to paintball.

Not so fast ... an encyclopedia is a good reference too, as is Google:

"The names of gods are capitalized, including Allah, Vishnu, and God. The word god is not capitalized if it is used to refer to the generic idea of a deity, nor is it capitalized when it refers to multiple gods, e.g., Roman gods. There may be some confusion because the Judeo-Christian god is not referred to by a specific name, but simply as God. Other names for the Judeo-Christian god, such as Elohim and Lord, are also capitalized."

This is a pretty good article on that too:

http://atheism.about.com/od/doesgodexist/a/capitalization.htm

You're spot on about the missing apostrophe in the contraction though (c:

Typically, when one uses the expression, "That's what God gave them to us for," one is referring to Christianity; I can't say that I've ever heard a Hindu or Muslim use that phrase before.