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Cast Iron
- Joined
- Jul 30, 2010
- Location
- redlands, CA
Here are some pics of the mill I just picked up. It seems vastly different than my other Diamond mill. On visual inspection, the knee and table feed are the same though. I live outside of LA which is where this mill is made, so there is a large population of Diamond Mill owners in this area. My other Diamond is an M22 model horizontal milling machine as seen here in blue (reliable tool pics of my mill at the bottom of Tony's site)
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Anyway, the new mill was purchased at a garage sale and came with a nice Troyke BH-9 Rotary Table, the same vice I have on my other mill except with the swivel base, and this incredible overarm head that looks to be able to become a vertical head. Let's just say there was no way I could pass it up even though I don't currently have a pickup.
I cajoled the boss into letting me borrow the companies truck and headed over to get the compact beast. We lifted it onto a dolly with a cherry picker and wheeled it out to the truck. We just tilted it back onto the end of the bed and lifted up the base to get it truly horizontal then slid it on wood into the bed. I even got a free jacuzzi pool pump that they had spent all day chopping up with a sawsall! I also got a good look at the motor which is a Fairbanks Morse single phase running 220 volt. It took the motor a bit to get turning, but I did get to see the whole thing work before I purchased it. The PO had it setup for boring some Ford Model A parts, so I see great potential in the vertical head. The guy said his pops had special ordered the head after he purchased the mill. I took it apart and everything looks well lubed as far as I can tell. Hate to gloat, but I am very happy with tonight's score!
Pics here:
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Anyway, the new mill was purchased at a garage sale and came with a nice Troyke BH-9 Rotary Table, the same vice I have on my other mill except with the swivel base, and this incredible overarm head that looks to be able to become a vertical head. Let's just say there was no way I could pass it up even though I don't currently have a pickup.
I cajoled the boss into letting me borrow the companies truck and headed over to get the compact beast. We lifted it onto a dolly with a cherry picker and wheeled it out to the truck. We just tilted it back onto the end of the bed and lifted up the base to get it truly horizontal then slid it on wood into the bed. I even got a free jacuzzi pool pump that they had spent all day chopping up with a sawsall! I also got a good look at the motor which is a Fairbanks Morse single phase running 220 volt. It took the motor a bit to get turning, but I did get to see the whole thing work before I purchased it. The PO had it setup for boring some Ford Model A parts, so I see great potential in the vertical head. The guy said his pops had special ordered the head after he purchased the mill. I took it apart and everything looks well lubed as far as I can tell. Hate to gloat, but I am very happy with tonight's score!
Pics here: