milling machine

cool, where's the pictures Smile

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My favourites
springer - Diana 52
PCP - FX Wildcat III

Decided to upgrade a cheap $800 toolshed mill/drill i bought to give me a decent drill press having sold

my old mill some time ago i needed another,but being broke ather spending all my cash on new lathe

tools decided to fit electronic scales n remote digital readouts on all three table axis as the machine had

no measuring scales of any sort making it next to useless for any serious milling job,but being a tight ass

didnt want to spend much on a $800 drill press,i found some dro units cheap @ 80 bucks each so figured

worth a go eh!!

Needed collets to hold tools for milling,drill chuck dispite being held in with a drawbar had too much

runout to be much use for milling,but spindle only a 2mt bore,not easy size to get arbors,collets etc for

but luckly ToolsNZ in Chistchuch carrys or will get 2mt stuff and at friendly prices too,prob chinese but

worth a go,so ordered set metric collets to siut the 10mm drawbar,n see how they go,this guy allso has

a 2mt arbor,boring head, n boring bars to suit for well under $200 so guna give this a go to.

Had allready modified a digital vernier as a spindle dro,but have decided to fit a dro that matchs the

others instead.

Have some this gear on way,the rest still on ship i think,so will have wait til that gets here n get some

on the way when it arrives.

So guna be an interesting project,will be fitting first lot dro this weekend as well trying the collets out

for runout,so got my fingers crossed it works out as planned,need get a camera as cant post pics.

If this works out as planned will be cheap way for anyone to get a useable milling machine,as every

thing very tight on this mill/drill cant see why it shouldnt turn out just fine,have done quite bit

bassic milling on this machine,all turned out just fine and to tight tolerences so expecting once

upgraded how i want will be a decent mill.

Cheers Mike

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xyon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 Dec 2016 Location: Canterbury Status: Offline Posts: 133	Post Options Post Reply Quote xyon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Sep 2017 at 8:55pm
	cool, where's the pictures
	--- My favourites springer - Diana 52 PCP - FX Wildcat III

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	Spent sunday fitting electronic scales n remote digital read out units to the mill/drill,now got DROs on all three axis,for first time actually now exact measurments for what am machining,bloody awesume, At $83 per axis was well worth it. Cheers Mike

dvlnme Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 30 May 2017 Location: taranaki Status: Offline Posts: 519	Post Options Post Reply Quote dvlnme Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Sep 2017 at 8:18pm
	Decided to upgrade a cheap $800 toolshed mill/drill i bought to give me a decent drill press having sold my old mill some time ago i needed another,but being broke ather spending all my cash on new lathe tools decided to fit electronic scales n remote digital readouts on all three table axis as the machine had no measuring scales of any sort making it next to useless for any serious milling job,but being a tight ass didnt want to spend much on a $800 drill press,i found some dro units cheap @ 80 bucks each so figured worth a go eh!! Needed collets to hold tools for milling,drill chuck dispite being held in with a drawbar had too much runout to be much use for milling,but spindle only a 2mt bore,not easy size to get arbors,collets etc for but luckly ToolsNZ in Chistchuch carrys or will get 2mt stuff and at friendly prices too,prob chinese but worth a go,so ordered set metric collets to siut the 10mm drawbar,n see how they go,this guy allso has a 2mt arbor,boring head, n boring bars to suit for well under $200 so guna give this a go to. Had allready modified a digital vernier as a spindle dro,but have decided to fit a dro that matchs the others instead. Have some this gear on way,the rest still on ship i think,so will have wait til that gets here n get some on the way when it arrives. So guna be an interesting project,will be fitting first lot dro this weekend as well trying the collets out for runout,so got my fingers crossed it works out as planned,need get a camera as cant post pics. If this works out as planned will be cheap way for anyone to get a useable milling machine,as every thing very tight on this mill/drill cant see why it shouldnt turn out just fine,have done quite bit bassic milling on this machine,all turned out just fine and to tight tolerences so expecting once upgraded how i want will be a decent mill. Cheers Mike