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Need help identifying this mini mill
- Thread starter Bwood
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azmachining
Cast Iron
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- Dec 26, 2014
- Location
- Central Valley, AZ
Scrap, maybe a drill press with X Y table, surely not.a mill.
dalmatiangirl61
Diamond
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- Jan 31, 2011
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- BFE Nevada/San Marcos Tx
#1 clue to me that it is an import would be the plastic handwheels. That said, for a mini mill it does seem to have had more thought put into it than the round column unmentionables. If you just do small parts, it might be ok.
Edit: Head travels in/out, rotates left/right, knods, but I don't see a handle for the quill. I hope they did not intend for saddle to do the Z axis, that would be a major pia.
Edit: Head travels in/out, rotates left/right, knods, but I don't see a handle for the quill. I hope they did not intend for saddle to do the Z axis, that would be a major pia.
Where does it say the handwheels are plastic? They do not look obviously plastic, look more rusty to me.....
As for the quill, Benchmaster, which are of similar size, also have no quill, and the table is used. For that matter, most all horizontal mills with vertical heads also have no quill.
I agree totally it is a PIA....
dalmatiangirl61
Diamond
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- Jan 31, 2011
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- BFE Nevada/San Marcos Tx
Hand wheels look like black plastic on my screen, maybe its just my eyes? Horizontal mill is a whole nother machine, a vertical with no quill travel seems a bit silly imho.
partsproduction
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
It looks 1950'sh to me, look in lathes.uk, look at all the Y travel. It doesn't look like an Asian mill to me, but as to value that's totally in the mind of of the viewer, it has charm to my eyes, not to make a living on, but because it's unique.
I spent an hour looking for a sample like it and finally gave up. Notice how thin the base is, that's very unusual too, and no holes to bolt it to a table?
For that reason I do wish someone could tell us who made it.
I spent an hour looking for a sample like it and finally gave up. Notice how thin the base is, that's very unusual too, and no holes to bolt it to a table?
For that reason I do wish someone could tell us who made it.
PDW
Diamond
- Joined
- Jul 24, 2006
- Location
- Australia (Hobart)
Looks to me like a home-built one-off.
Lots of oddball features - head nods but no quill, really long Y travel, single T slot in the table, sections look like heavy pipe with bolted on plates/dovetail ways etc etc.
Better pix might show more detail but I kind of doubt it was a factory mass-produced item.
PDW
Lots of oddball features - head nods but no quill, really long Y travel, single T slot in the table, sections look like heavy pipe with bolted on plates/dovetail ways etc etc.
Better pix might show more detail but I kind of doubt it was a factory mass-produced item.
PDW
partsproduction
Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
You are right PDW, that's possible it was fabbed. And I see a slot now in the base for a single clamp screw, that's odd. If it was fabbed from steel sections the workmanship was high, I see no evidence of welds.
Yea odd machine for sure if it was homemade they did a very good job there is no quill travel and no plastic on it anywhere and it is permanently set up to use universal engineering collets no taper for different bits so I'm trying to find some more sizes of those it came with one 1/2 inch collet. I gave a hundred bucks for that and the burke no2 horizontal mill behind it so I think I did ok.
Or this...no mention of a Quill:
SU1 high quality universal vertical milling machine-in Milling Machine from Tools on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group
SU1 high quality universal vertical milling machine-in Milling Machine from Tools on Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group
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Titanium
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2011
- Location
- Oregon coast
Another weirdness, there is no place to mount the motor permanently as on a Benchmaster and most small mills using V belts.
