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Recently got this Mill Drill.
I've removed the vise collected wrenches, spanner, drill and bits on this morning.
Moved all the axis especially Z axis all the way up because I moved it all the way down to lower the center of gravity for transportation.
Anyways I've got this thing for 200 euro looked only at pictures before picking it up because it belongs from a friend's father.
He retired 2 years ago after almost 60 years of activity.
I've had to take it in a hurry on Thursday because the shed owner gave this expiry date prior to keep everything inside...
Anyways it's a made in Italy machine, and unfortunately the company that made it no longer exists.
The drill was acquired in Sweden and brought back here in Italy during the 70's.
I knew about electrical issues and missing bits, but discovered only on this morning the amount of damage on the table.
I'm little concerned about honestly because it has drill spots everywhere especially a 35ish mm one on the left side and a missing spot on a T slot.
I've initially thought that I could weld small divots but only if they were far enough from each other and smaller than 7mm in diameter.
Then lower them down using a grinder fly cut all the length (freeing up the cutter front back and ensuring alignments square etc etc) maybe scrap it or grind using a cup wheel on the spindle of the machine itself.
Two main problems, it's a mill drill not an horizontal milling machine or a skimming machine.
The table is about 60mm thick in total including the dovetails thickness, It supported on a roughly 300mm length only.
We already know how people use those machines....
Nobody swaps vice position to get uniform wear on the dovetails and screws
It mostly likely end up curved like a banana both because the weight of the unsupported table moved all the way on a side and "thicker" dovetails on the table ends.
Resulting with deeper cuts on the ends.
Let's move on the table power feed.
Motor and gearbox are attached to the X axis screw but the electricals are not connected, the control panel is missing, and I'm not entirely sure the gears lever Is just a neutral left to right and reverse.
Because I can engage the gears but on one of them I can still manually move (not neutral) the table.
Now the motor should be three phase but all the metal shavings and filings etc on it tell me it has permanent magnets in it.
Not sure about it's voltage.
I hope to find a data plate on it because it's a function I'd like to restore.
I'm taking notes of what's need to do and how.
I've got a wooden shed and finally I can properly store the mill and lathe, cold saw etc
Restore and use them.
Only a matter of weeks.
