Small Floor Type Mill?

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Archer120x

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Can anyone suggest floor type mills that aren't huge? It would be nice to hold large awkward parts stationary, while the head and column do all the movement. I would like 120" in the X and maybe 60" in the Y. The closest thing I have found online is an old Landis 3-1/2".

 

Big B

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Archer120x said:

Can anyone suggest floor type mills that aren't huge? It would be nice to hold large awkward parts stationary, while the head and column do all the movement. I would like 120" in the X and maybe 60" in the Y. The closest thing I have found online is an old Landis 3-1/2".

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If a mill with 5' of travel in y and 10 in x is a small mill I'd like to know what you consider to be a large mill.

 

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Limy Sami

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Big B said:

If a mill with 5' of travel in y and 10 in x is a small mill I'd like to know what you consider to be a large mill.

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When you're talking floor mills that is NOT big.

REF large milling machine - Google Search

 

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Big B said:

If a mill with 5' of travel in y and 10 in x is a small mill I'd like to know what you consider to be a large mill.

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"Horizontal Boring Mill"

"Floor Type" is a designation meaning "No pit needed"

 

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gustafson

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Funny, took me a minute too.

Like the military

Usta have a GP Medium tent with some buddies

Military idea of 'medium'

16'x32', 10 ft to the peak

 

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Archer120x

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This is the Landis, not enough X:
LANDIS 3½ FLOOR-TYPE HORIZ. BORING MILL

And this is what size I usually find, notice how the operators station doubles as a man lift to change the high bay lights:
CNC FLOOR TYPE HORIZONTAL BORING MILL, GIDDINGS & LEWIS 6" MDL. 70-H6-F, Allen Bradley 9 Series C

 

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john.k

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Something like a Butler Elgamill is whats needed ,I think.......The smaller one arent all that big,but being fairly modern ,sell for a bit.

 

Big B

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I missed the "floor mill" part in the first post. When I saw it I was thinking more like a Bridgeport than a machine that is part of the building. In those machines 5X10 feet probably would be pretty small.

 

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DeVlieg made 120" mills. If you don't need a tailstock, its the least floor space of any boring mill and better accuracy when new.

 

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An aquaintance of mine programs at a place that has huge machines. I'll ask him what they have in that size range the next time I see him.

 

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Archer120x

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john.k said:

Something like a Butler Elgamill is whats needed ,I think.......The smaller one arent all that big,but being fairly modern ,sell for a bit.

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That's nice!

 

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J Henricksen

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Rockford made a small portal mill with adjustable rail the CM series they had tables ranging from 36x96 to 60x 120. Up to 4 heads on them, 30 hp spindles. The bigger Rockfords RM series ranged from (2)72x 144 tables with 48 fto travel to 9 ftx 32 ft tables. They had 50 hp heads.
The green machine is a 1937 Ingersoll in use almost every day in a steel mill near Pittsburgh. The blue Rockford is a 1968 model in a steel service center in Houston.

 

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gregormarwick

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60" of Y is getting closer to "big" than 120" of X.

All the same, there are a lot of European mills that might suit you.

Anayak
Zayer
Scharmann
Correa
FPT

 

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Can you live with a gantry mill ? We found a couple of Forest-Line models that were about that size in the US. CNC tho, and commonly five axis. Made in Canada, I think the company is still there. Part of Fives now ?

 

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gbent said:

DeVlieg made 120" mills. If you don't need a tailstock, its the least floor space of any boring mill and better accuracy when new.

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I'm shopping Devliegs now.

 

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digger doug said:

"Horizontal Boring Mill"

"Floor Type" is a designation meaning "No pit needed"

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No, you have it backwards. "Floor type" means the table is flush with the floor. A "table type" sits on the floor.

 

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DDoug

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rickseeman said:

No, you have it backwards. "Floor type" means the table is flush with the floor. A "table type" sits on the floor.

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You are correct sir. my bad.

"floor type" in that the "table" is a cast in concrete slotted floor plate.

Part does not move at all.