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Looks a lot more civilised than sandblasting

Anyone got one?

If you're doing a lot of awkward heavy lifts maybe a magnetic system would make life easier

There are various items on ebay

That's a REAL lathe.

Can't be many still running now

If you give the model/type that may help, they made quite a few variants

Edited By Ady1 on 16/02/2023 10:34:37

Ken swan did a kerr stuart 0-4-0 wren at some point, it may be similar with a different cab/saddle

Then there's the kerr stuart "victory", the bulldog may be a cut down version of that

arrangement

Edited By Ady1 on 15/02/2023 16:06:28

I just saw your workshop and you're not hanging about are you...

Don't forget about CAD as an aid in your quest, it's very handy for when you're not doing "real work", can't get into the workshop, too knackered etc

GL

I didn't want to say "weld it" because that's talking dirty

You need a lathe with a curved bed

Happens a lot with me.

Anyone who uses older web building programs to build a site is a

"security risk ahead !" site

So the little one-man-band places get excluded

The big corporates don't want us to see the little peoples shops

(If you visit sex sites then... well it was always at your own risk anyway)

edit: I can get straight in no problem with my older Firefox software, looks like a pretty nice site

Edited By Ady1 on 15/02/2023 11:40:35

Nice one Hopper, well done you

You're now a social media star and can appear on I'm a celebrity and strictly come dancing

Well done you

And I would buy it with the DRO, they can save a lot of time/effort

(That's why they are so popular with so many users)

Edited By Ady1 on 15/02/2023 00:39:58

Perhaps a very high speed finishing cut would sort it

(or a finishing cut on a bridgeport !)

I get the same effect on my home made mill but it's not very stiff/heavy

Edited By Ady1 on 13/02/2023 23:28:36

I've got a concrete garage and use a bit of scrap rubber mat under all my "bigger stuff" feet and it makes a huge difference, I do it before I even plug in a new unit now

The shaper in particular made the house rumble, probably more resonance noise than HP, but you noticed

Drummond did a big one Page 22

My brothers pal jumping off one of those huge railway cutting walls for half a crunchie

Then lying there on the deck with a broken leg demanding his reward

The best bang I ever heard was one of those railway detonators going off in the kids toilet at school

He'd been chucking it against walls and hitting it with half bricks until it was a mangled lump of metal but finally succeeded at setting it off around lunch

edit: Those big red empty calor gas canisters on a bonfire were always pretty entertaining

Edited By Ady1 on 12/02/2023 02:23:14

I should add one caveat, you MUST use a collet to hold a milling cutter, a drill chuck simply won't hack it, the side forces mean your cutter will eventually wander into or out of the chuck jaws and mess the job up

If you can make a good strong accurate drill then you can do 80% of a lot of milling jobs, it's a lot cheaper on the tooling too, and faster, the drill swarf can really pile up compared to a light milling cutter because you can do up to 12mm and work it hard

Then swap tooling and finish with light accurate cuts with the 5-6mm milling tool

I suppose that's a good way to test an unknown drilling machine, stick a sharp 12mm drill into the chuck and see how it does with drilling through a 20mm mild steel block. If it's a doddle then you only need to add an X-Y table to give yourself a light milling machine

One on the bay at the moment that would get me excited if I was in the market

Edited By Ady1 on 11/02/2023 23:49:00

...and once you start taking successful light cuts you realise that some jobs will take forever and you wish you could take heavier cuts so you can get on and do more stuff...

If you are going to do metalwork and you can afford and accommodate a chunky mill then it's actually a no-brainer to go for as-chunky-as-possible from the very start

Lathes are a lot easier because even a decent smaller lathe can do quite heavy work, but a decent smaller mill cannot do quite heavy work

Well done you

Welcome to the nuthouse, and have fun with your new pal

I simply repurposed already capable kit, a Drummond M lathe with a good headstock and a 40 kg milling table so the hard work of decent accuracy and stability was already there, I simply bolted them together

and it still shakes if you take too big a bite, using only 6mm cutters mainly

Only a multi skilled machinist with good resources could make a decent mill from scratch in my opinion, because it needs to be very accurate when it does work, sub 0.5mm across the entire working plane, sub 0.1mm preferred, up/down left/right otherwise it's been a waste of effort

The table is moving horizontally over a dovetail?

The table is bolted "immovably" to the cross slide but can move up and down the lathe bed with the leadscrew

It's actually fabulous for big woodwork jobs because all the mess drops down out of the work zone

Edited By Ady1 on 10/02/2023 23:35:52