tjscott3
Plastic
- Joined
- May 17, 2020
- Location
- Glasgow. Scotland
first post here and ive had a dig through the forum rules and im 90% sure this is the right section, sorry in advance if its the wrong place for it though.
Hi, ive been after a milling machine of some sort for a few years, mostly for supporting my car hobby, and had planned to pick up a project bridgeport to work on in my spare time outside of uni. however my students budget ended up ruling that one out and i have got ahold of a Victoria V2 vertical mill ( although with lockdown on, after uni has just become every day ).
it has been converted to 240v, i am unsure of the motor power but its enough to flicker the lights on startup, which was actually part of the decider for going for it as i wont have to spend the extra to put together a rotary converter.
it does have some issues, i only have one handle which is for the knee/saddle screws so when used on the x axis it doesnt really fit properly and the worm drive box that bolts across to the Y axis screw is cracked which is giving about 0.05-0.06" of backlash ( ill need to find a replacement or come up with a way to fix this) . oh and its all in imperial which i am now learning how to read.
sorry for the long post, hopefully some photos make up for it
Hi, ive been after a milling machine of some sort for a few years, mostly for supporting my car hobby, and had planned to pick up a project bridgeport to work on in my spare time outside of uni. however my students budget ended up ruling that one out and i have got ahold of a Victoria V2 vertical mill ( although with lockdown on, after uni has just become every day ).
it has been converted to 240v, i am unsure of the motor power but its enough to flicker the lights on startup, which was actually part of the decider for going for it as i wont have to spend the extra to put together a rotary converter.
it does have some issues, i only have one handle which is for the knee/saddle screws so when used on the x axis it doesnt really fit properly and the worm drive box that bolts across to the Y axis screw is cracked which is giving about 0.05-0.06" of backlash ( ill need to find a replacement or come up with a way to fix this) . oh and its all in imperial which i am now learning how to read.
sorry for the long post, hopefully some photos make up for it