Chester 626 Mill Column

Hello Thought it about time I introduced myself been lurking in the back ground for some time now.

I have a myford super 7 and chester 626, I am probably a bit of a myford nut something to do with my school days,

Athough I do like colchesters tech and apprenticeship days. Now retired

I have had the chester mill for about 10 years now, I have a question? the spindle can be rotated +-45 deg's from vertical and I can understand why ie milling v'ees or drilling holes at an an angle. However the turret can be rotated +-45 deg's, my question is why would you want to do this? I have never found a reason to move it, the spindle just becomes further away from the table

Phil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 25/08/2018 19:41:30

Which is ideal if you have a job that overhangs the table!

Ian P

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 25/08/2018 19:41:37

Hi Phil welcome to the forum. About the rotating of the head, it is not used very often but I had a long piece of steel to drill to make a gib strip, and I set it up on an angle plate at 45 degrees with end over end of table then just rotated head to match angle and milled and drilled piece. I am sure there are other uses other people use it for other operations.

David

Also if you have a job that needs work greater than the longitudinal movement of the table you can swing the head round to do a bit each end provided you can establish a reference point in the middle. This can be better at keeping cuts parallel at each end rather than trying to reset the material.

Here's an example.

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Big steel housing for a battery tray that was too big / tall to fit "on" the table. Hung it out the back / over to one side so I could make some slots in it. In fact, hung it out both sides as that was the only way to access all of the surfaces.

Job done. That's a door mat to give some idea of scale.

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Murray