K Battenbough
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2005
- Location
- Swansea, South Wales
Hello Folks
First of all, there are no forums dedicated to Jafo Jarocin, or Ajax machines so i thought i would post here, as there is a cazeneuve in the background of the pics :-). I thought folks might be interested in seeing what i have done to my mill. I bought the jafo a couple of years ago now as it was in excellent condition with minimal backlash on the ways, and i thought this could be my allround mill with universal table and horizontal and vertical cutting planes. The only problem was the vertical geared head was noisey as hell! and by the time you had a collet chuck in the spindle there wasnt alot of room left for the workpiece. Originaly i was on the lookout for a bridgeport head that i could fit via an adapter plate onto the original overhead ram, however i came across the ajax ajt4 head complete with ram on ebay one day, and luckily was the only bidder! Amazingly the ram slid straight into the jafos dovetail which saved me alot of fabricating. I love this machine now, it has rapids in all directions, and now when vertical milling the ajax head is nice and quiet. Ive yet to fit a select lever to direct power to the horizontal spindle motor, i will get round to it one day, and finaly i now have a newall 3 axis dro ready to be fitted. Anyways thats enough from me for now, i hope you enjoy the pics.
Kevin
First of all, there are no forums dedicated to Jafo Jarocin, or Ajax machines so i thought i would post here, as there is a cazeneuve in the background of the pics :-). I thought folks might be interested in seeing what i have done to my mill. I bought the jafo a couple of years ago now as it was in excellent condition with minimal backlash on the ways, and i thought this could be my allround mill with universal table and horizontal and vertical cutting planes. The only problem was the vertical geared head was noisey as hell! and by the time you had a collet chuck in the spindle there wasnt alot of room left for the workpiece. Originaly i was on the lookout for a bridgeport head that i could fit via an adapter plate onto the original overhead ram, however i came across the ajax ajt4 head complete with ram on ebay one day, and luckily was the only bidder! Amazingly the ram slid straight into the jafos dovetail which saved me alot of fabricating. I love this machine now, it has rapids in all directions, and now when vertical milling the ajax head is nice and quiet. Ive yet to fit a select lever to direct power to the horizontal spindle motor, i will get round to it one day, and finaly i now have a newall 3 axis dro ready to be fitted. Anyways thats enough from me for now, i hope you enjoy the pics.
Kevin
, heres a clip I posted awhile back of it going through the motions.
This one's almost close. Reefer dream, maybe. 
