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I'm being given an Axelson milling machine. There is one picture on google otherwise I can't find any info. The head is on a XY RAM that rotates giving an option to mill universally.

Anyone know anything about them?

Thanks,
T.
 
I'm being given an Axelson milling machine. There is one picture on google otherwise I can't find any info. The head is on a XY RAM that rotates giving an option to mill universally.

Anyone know anything about them?

Thanks,
T.

"images Axelson milling machine" should also turn up photo archives and at least one publication on 'a n other' website right under the images.

As is usual with Google, few images - if ANY - have anything to do with the search term entered.
One greasy, ugly, Old Iron monster is as mysterious as any other to a 'puter nerd.

:)
 
I found the manual!: http://manuals.chudov.com/Axelson/axelson-duplex-mill-10R-10RH-nodate.pdf

What I'm getting doesn't have the factory head. He has a head of unknown make that looks like a Bridgeport that has to be adapted to the machine... I don't know if I will do that or not but the base looks nice and I'm going to save it from scrap. If nothing else it can be used to mount a bench vice or blacksmith vice to it. Might make a nice English wheel frame too.
 
I found the manual!: http://manuals.chudov.com/Axelson/axelson-duplex-mill-10R-10RH-nodate.pdf

What I'm getting doesn't have the factory head. He has a head of unknown make that looks like a Bridgeport that has to be adapted to the machine... I don't know if I will do that or not but the base looks nice and I'm going to save it from scrap. If nothing else it can be used to mount a bench vice or blacksmith vice to it. Might make a nice English wheel frame too.

That's our Igor. Helpful guy on old docs.

D'you already have another mill to use to fab needfuls for adapting?
 
Well, look at that, its a Fray All-Angle with Axelson's name on it. http://www.lathes.co.uk/fray/ There is at least one other instance of this machine being badge engineered, which escapes me at the moment. I wonder if these are the product of an acquisition or license built or rebadged?

allan
 
Well, look at that, its a Fray All-Angle with Axelson's name on it. http://www.lathes.co.uk/fray/ There is at least one other instance of this machine being badge engineered, which escapes me at the moment. I wonder if these are the product of an acquisition or license built or rebadged?

allan

Good catch, Allan!

Yes, there are other examples of Fray re-badging. One if not two other PM threads have the most 'meat', IIRC.
 
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Thanks Allen!

The reason I may not put a head back on it is that I have a K&T 12 with a universal quill head and a Pratt Whitney jig bore and too many other projects. I could use a dedicated small vertical mill though, so if I can put the mystery head back on it - I will.
 

I didn't expand - in that thread - on the "Quartet". Sufficeth to say it isn't all that much larger in working footprint than a Bee Pee. However - the turret and vertical component made up just about half of its 5200+ lbs Avoir. More than an entire Bee Pee, I'd venture. 3/4 HP powered+ rapids knee and base, 5 HP main drive motor about the same again

The Fray & re-brands are more flexible, but with rather more modest metal removal limits. Lighter, even, than an already dog-paddling Bee Pee. Best suited to fine work, and intricate, where their flexibility can save time on an otherwise more complex set up.

Bill.
 
I saw one Axelson mill in person and researched it at the time. They were built after the family sold off Axelson in the mid 50's, but I can't find where I found that info on the milling machines.

I don't think the milling machines were anything special.
 








 
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