carl0s
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2019
Having finally got the Churchill Cub lathe back together this weekend (after moving house 18 months ago), and now at last actually working and wired up with VFD + 240v motor (bought 3 years ago along with the lathe!), I have realised I need quite a few replacement gears. The one that looks hard to find is a 110T 20DP.
On that basis I fancy a project (gear making), and once I knock a couple of walls down in the garage/outbuilding, I'm going to look for a proper used milling machine. My budget might be around £3,000 or so.
For cutting the gears, a horizontal mill would probably be best, right? And those right-angle adapters for Bridgeports are firstly quite expensive and secondly quite a faff to install, and not terribly rigid.
But a horizontal mill by itself is not going to be much use for other stuff.
Should I concentrate on looking for a 'universal' mill? Or would one of those mean I miss out on other features that something like a Bridgeport vertical knee mill would have?
I would probably try to use the vertical mill to mill-out the 6-spline keyway that I need, and horizontal for the tooth cutting.
I need a mill that I can either swap the motor in - like I did with the lathe, or re-wire the existing motor to run on 230v 3 phase from a VFD.
On that basis I fancy a project (gear making), and once I knock a couple of walls down in the garage/outbuilding, I'm going to look for a proper used milling machine. My budget might be around £3,000 or so.
For cutting the gears, a horizontal mill would probably be best, right? And those right-angle adapters for Bridgeports are firstly quite expensive and secondly quite a faff to install, and not terribly rigid.
But a horizontal mill by itself is not going to be much use for other stuff.
Should I concentrate on looking for a 'universal' mill? Or would one of those mean I miss out on other features that something like a Bridgeport vertical knee mill would have?
I would probably try to use the vertical mill to mill-out the 6-spline keyway that I need, and horizontal for the tooth cutting.
I need a mill that I can either swap the motor in - like I did with the lathe, or re-wire the existing motor to run on 230v 3 phase from a VFD.