ML7 Owner now wants a Mill?

Martin,

As the machine you are looking at has an R8 spindle and you have a full set of ER25 collets, you could buy an R8 ER25 collet chuck (without collets) and share the collet set between the mill and lathe. I doubt that you will use both at the same time! That set up will enable you to hold any size milling cutters up to 16 mm shank.

Russell.

Hi All,

Some progress, have cleared out a load of junk from WS and now working on where things will go.

This may be really silly but here goes:

All my woodworking machinery was located on various forms of castored machine bases; on nice day I could wheel them outside for use which made working much nicer and less dust to worry about, (long extractor hoses!)

More importantly when not in use they could be pushed into a corner to free up space. Machines are now mostly gone, (large table saw and router table ready to go) but I still have one of the bases left. This is a very strongly built 18mm marine ply box on 250kg industrial castors with treble thickness top and space beneath for storage. Can easily be cross braced inside if needed.

Could this be used for the Warco Mill (or whatever)? The large Axminster Morticer that used to sit on it seemed fine and that was very heavy indeed, (could look up the weight I suppose).

Just wondering if this is viable from a using the mill properly and safely point of view?

Incidentally I have ordered a moveable large storage rack from Rapid Racking that will keep all the tooling,stock etc handily close by but will shove out the way when done.

Cheers, Martin

Just found out that WARCO are having an open day on 19th July so will traipse up there and have a look see!

Talked to one of their chaps on the 'phone and he seemed very helpful.

Have advertised the Derbyshire Elect Lathe and Router Table so must see what they fetch, before finalising the budget.

Bought The Workshop Manual book which is fascinating.

Cheers,

Martin

Hi all,

Russell, the machine is 3MT not R8 I am pretty sure so I guess a 3Mt to 2MT for the ML7 tooling I already have?

Does anyone have any thoughts on my query above re the mobile base for theis machine please?

I need to know this in order to buy/not buy the cabinet base.

Regards,

Martin

Hi All,

Bullet well and truly bitten!

Went to Warco and bought a new WM18, Stand & DRO plus a lot of stuff from the second hand area which was a real scrum, but good fun!

Found out that Warco actually do a moveable base for the mill so hopefull that problem solved.

Really very nice and helpful people to deal with as a newcomer.

Came home with the stand & tray which will help me plane the space better.

I have a pair of tall acro's and 2 off 6x4 greenheart beams with chain hoist ready to tie into the roof rafters for the lift when ready.

Cheers, Martin