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I picked up a small horizontal mill with a 6"x20" table and need a small vice for it. Located near Dayton Ohio.
Did not know that, this is my first horizontal mill but I do have a bunch of t slot clamps. When I bought it there was an angle plate on the table, do a lot of guys just indicate a plate like that and clamp to it?
Will be interesting to use, I'm waiting on its paint to dry at the moment though. Has a NO3 Morse taper and looks like it can put out some serious power for its size.
I have the OEM one for the Burke. Small. It fits. But also a damned poor example of whatever it was it had set out to become.I don’t generally disagree with Thermite because he’s right much more often than not, but by all means get a vise. Just a guess, but I’d say that well over half of the setups I do on the horizontal mill use the vise.
One of your first decisions, though, will involve spindle tooling. End mill holders or collet chucks vs. milling arbors. End mills are cheap, but you’ll be working where the sun don’t shine and relying on a mirror or craning your neck around. On the plus side, the setup will be extremely rigid and you can usually rely on the vise keys without tramming. I more often use the old-fashioned wheel type milling cutters mounted on an arbor. They are quite expensive new, but you can often find them cheap used. You’ll probably need a few different sized arbors, though.
The vast majority of horizontal mill tasking I have done was clamped directly to the table.
Folks that have only horizontals, and use them for small part machining, use a vise. He's probably in this catagory.
Hardinge routinely fitted their UM miller with a small vise. Those are scare and expensive. Pratt and Whitney, likewise
always had a tiny vise to go with their no. 3 horizontal miller. Even more expensive, and much more scarce. (it fits
the reverse dovetail table on those machines.
A very good inexpesive work around for those who cannot afford the unobtainum parts, is a small import swivel vise
branded by Wilton:
And yes, for the record, there is a vertical head fitted in that photo.
I was lucky to get a few arbors and some end mill holders with it. Even a really old indexer so I'm mostly set there. I don't have many cutters for the arbor yet though but that's something I can do with what I have for awhile. I have access to a bridgeport and most of my basic milling will be on it yet. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get a small machine, I'll be moving a couple more times in a few years and it's nice to have something small and portable.
Naturlich.. I went on a #9 B&S "grab it while you can still find any" acquisition spree.
I was lucky to get a few arbors and some end mill holders with it. Even a really old indexer so I'm mostly set there. I don't have many cutters for the arbor yet though but that's something I can do with what I have for awhile. I have access to a bridgeport and most of my basic milling will be on it yet. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get a small machine, I'll be moving a couple more times in a few years and it's nice to have something small and portable.
on edit: This time I agree with Thermite, in that mostly, you won't need a vise. i have spent quite a bit of time on horizontals and rarely used a vise on them. We had universal heads for them and only then, would we sometimes need a vise. This is an unusual situation, me agreeing with Thermite.
JH
Didn't have much "daylight" above the table
Note that pratt whitney accounted for this issue when they designed their vertical head,
it's offset upwards on purpose. Besides, the topic is small horizontal mills. Vise is handy
for small workpieces.
Didn't have much "daylight" above the table
Note that pratt whitney accounted for this issue when they designed their vertical head,
it's offset upwards on purpose. Besides, the topic is small horizontal mills. Vise is handy
for small workpieces.
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