Know more about Henri Hauser milling machine

Hi Folks

Greetings to all

Wonder anyone here owns a Henri Hauser milling machine? I like to copy the external belt drive and belt tensioning layout for my DIY mill. Appreciates any help here via photos or manuals. Many thanks ahead.

Regards,

Steve Wan

There may be some info on your mill HERE

regards

There are a whole range of Hauser machjines, some with different drive arrangements.

You might like to email the horologist, author & engineer, J Malcolm Wild who adapted his Hauser mill, the work being described in BHI’s ‘Horological Journal’ about three years back (?). The original machine was driven by a pendant motor suspended above the spindle via a flexible drive.........Malcolm decided that this was way below the engineering of the rest of the machine and developed his own new spindle/drive arrangement

looking at your album pix........that is not a mill but a conventional jig borer.    these usually have a pivoting motor mount working in conjunction with a sliding intermediary pulley arrangement........take a look at ‘Boley’ and ‘Leinen’ borers on Lathes uk....also ‘BCA’

Edited By Bob Stevenson on 15/03/2021 18:10:30

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The model in Steve’s photos is on this page: **LINK**

http://www.lathes.co.uk/hauser/page5.html

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 15/03/2021 18:28:29

Hi all, thanks I knew about www.lathe.co.uk runs by Tony. He's helpful and friendly.

But the small Hauser mill I'm looking at is not in his collection.

Bob, thanks I wrote to Malcolm for advise on his Hauser mill drive.

Guys, does anyone own a Deckel Pentograph GK2? It too has an interesting pendulum pulley drive.

Anyone likes to share more?

Regards,

Steve

I'm not too sure EXACTLY what you are trying to do......If you can be a bit more specific there are probably people here who can give you specific help......

Are you building a mill from scratch?.........or, are you trying to use the Hauser jig borer?......or, do you have a Hauser MILLING MACHINE?

At Epping Forest Horology Club we have a Boley jig borer which is very similar to the Hauser jig borer in your photos.........It's about 100 years old and has unfortunately lost it's original clever drive system. At some point in it's long life it has been re-equipped with a set of pulleys and what looks like an early washing-machine motor!....it works very well!

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Well I’m not going to argue with you, Steve ... but there are pictures on pages 5 & 6 that look remarkably similar to the one illustrated in your Album.

MichaelG.

@ Bob

The opening post seems pretty clear ^^^

MichaelG.

@Micheal G.....

well quite!...as have been our attempts to help.