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Help identify small horizontal mill
- Thread starter discodan
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Robert Lang
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- Minneapolis, MN
Robert Lang
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TomBoctou
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I don't know about the mill but those legs would make a great end table!
M.B. Naegle
Diamond
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- Conroe, TX USA
TomBoctou
Hot Rolled
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Hey buddy! Them's is fight'n words around here.
Don't eat the bait, it ain't sushi.
I have the knee but it is missing the bolt on part of the dovetail that connects it to the main casting, so I can't even install it. Other than that, nothing....
thermite
Diamond
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What is your goal, then? You have no mill and need one, or?
BMyers
Hot Rolled
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- Radcliffe Iowa
dundeeshopnut
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End table with integral lamp stand
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!scrap maker
Plastic
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- Bucktown PA
good thing to practice scrape on because it is missing parts and if it gets screwed up oh well
M.B. Naegle
Diamond
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- Conroe, TX USA
If someone had another Brainard to use for a pattern (and a lot of time), It probably could be brought back. Even without another Brainard it would present a fun project to DIY a mill. The saddle and table would be a challenge to reproduce, but as much as I'd hate to consider it, a small Asian mill could supply castings to modify. If it was closer I'd take it on (I'm swamped enough as it is, so it's time to start another project
).
I've seen similar projects come together before and I think the biggest mistake made is when guys try to engineer linear guide rails in or modern bearings and such. IMO you're better off trying to fill the holes with similar technology and designs to the machines time-period, rather than doing a Frankenstein hodge-podge of 1900's iron and home-brew CNC router parts.
).I've seen similar projects come together before and I think the biggest mistake made is when guys try to engineer linear guide rails in or modern bearings and such. IMO you're better off trying to fill the holes with similar technology and designs to the machines time-period, rather than doing a Frankenstein hodge-podge of 1900's iron and home-brew CNC router parts.
thermite
Diamond
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- Sep 21, 2011
You said you had the "knee". Did you mean only the "support" casting?
Or WITH the X-Y goods, table, and elevation rig?
reggie_obe
Diamond
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Hey buddy! Them's is fight'n words around here.
Tell that to every dickhead dealer that goes to the Cabin Fever auction and buys the unwanted machines for their legs.
thermite
Diamond
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- Sep 21, 2011
Only if all your taste as to home furnishing aesthetics is halfway down your throat or a comparable depth up yer afterburner.
"Dickheaddealer" is a noun.
Anyone with half an ounce of gumption can fab a better-looking "end table" outta salvaged dumpster-dive, style it to suit any of a dozen themes or "motifs".
M.B. Naegle
Diamond
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- Feb 7, 2011
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- Conroe, TX USA
Brainard Milling Machine Co. - History | VintageMachinery.org
It looks like this mill could have been made between 1871 and 1899. I'm inclined to think it's on the early side given that most of the machines pictured in their catalogs had a tie bar bridging the spindle bearings, and the saddle and table design don't follow the more common configuration of a long table over a smaller saddle.
It looks like this mill could have been made between 1871 and 1899. I'm inclined to think it's on the early side given that most of the machines pictured in their catalogs had a tie bar bridging the spindle bearings, and the saddle and table design don't follow the more common configuration of a long table over a smaller saddle.
