Billy Boy
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jan 30, 2005
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
I've long known that the lack of a knee and a rotating head on my Jet JMD 15 has been holding me back. As I've not got a huge amount of space I been looking for a small mill with a knee that might fit the bill (pun intended!) . I've got a lead on a clausing 8520 which is fairly small, and has all the feature I'm looking for...
The only draw back I can see on the outset is that the spindle is Morse Taper #2... which is not going to fit with any of my current R-8 tooling and seems to be sort of odd ball... for example, I have yet to find a face mill that I'd be able to use on the machine.
But never having seen one of these machines up close and personal... much less run one, I'd like to find out what others think of these machines.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/clausing%20vertical/
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The only draw back I can see on the outset is that the spindle is Morse Taper #2... which is not going to fit with any of my current R-8 tooling and seems to be sort of odd ball... for example, I have yet to find a face mill that I'd be able to use on the machine.
But never having seen one of these machines up close and personal... much less run one, I'd like to find out what others think of these machines.
http://www.lathes.co.uk/clausing%20vertical/
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