Milling - What do you mill/make

[Easywelder]

I mainly fabricate, lots of cutting, welding and drilling. I have never used a mill, although I have a warco universal with dro that I use for drilling and very useful it is too, as the bed means I can do a lot of drilling with no prior marking out. What sort of things do you mill owners make?

 

[Rannsachair]

See post #120 on https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/what-mill.117682/page-3#post-2023150

Usually special tools and fixtures.

 

[optima21]

I do model engineering mainly so small bits, but I did make a small machine vice to hold things with

Small Milling Vice

Finally got round to making a new milling vice. I'd been after a small vice for ages but none of the smaller ones really appealed to me, so I decided to make my own. as my milling machine is tiny compared to most on here, I wanted something between the quality of a drill vice and a "proper"...

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[Memmeddu]

I mainly fabricate, lots of cutting, welding and drilling. I have never used a mill, although I have a warco universal with dro that I use for drilling and very useful it is too, as the bed means I can do a lot of drilling with no prior marking out. What sort of things do you mill owners make?

I use this machine at work .
2 electrical speeds ,2 mechanical speeds and continuously variable transmission MT4 mill drill.
Mainly for drilling , very easy to use .
No DRO .
We have also an horizontal mill with a 90° head .
Iso 40 I've used it to cut keyways and splines on shafts

 

[Hood]

All sorts of things, mainly bits for fishing boats that I am fitting out or repairing but also some bits and pieces for my bike, car, whatever.
Have 2 CNC mills although one of them hasn't been used for probably 8-10 years.

 

[addjunkie]

I make what ever I need, but in the past mainly motorcycle bits. Yokes, odd bits and bobs, blower drive, to name a few.

 

[Johnnybravo]

All sorts of things, normally loads of swarf

 

[northwest]

Drilling holes:

 

[slim_boy_fat]

All sorts of things,

Going by that second pic, are you Egyptian? (I'll get my coat)

 

[minimutly]

All sorts of things, normally loads of swarf

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Talking of hiding your light under a bushel....

 

[mtt.tr]

All sorts of things, normally loads of swarf

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I could do that on my manual mill brigade are quiet

 

[Hood]

I could do that on my manual mill brigade are quiet

To be fair a lot of very complex stuff used to be done on manual mills back in the day. You needed all sorts of attachments and heads though, for example the cherrying head for a Bridgeport.
Much easier nowadays on a CNC, well maybe easier is the wrong word as there still needs to be a lot of thought that goes into the ordering and setup of a part even with CNC.

 

[mtt.tr]

To be fair a lot of very complex stuff used to be done on manual mills back in the day. You needed all sorts of attachments and heads though, for example the cherrying head for a Bridgeport.
Much easier nowadays on a CNC, well maybe easier is the wrong word as there still needs to be a lot of thought that goes into the ordering and setup of a part even with CNC.

There's some real cool old tooling.

 

[bricol]

I could do that on my manual mill brigade are quiet

I seem to recall reading as a kid about Barnes Wallace where he created a sculpture of his wife's head by drilling holes of pre-determined depth into a block of wood - so it could be done. Slowly.

 

[mtt.tr]

I seem to recall reading as a kid about Barnes Wallace where he created a sculpture of his wife's head by drilling holes of pre-determined depth into a block of wood - so it could be done. Slowly.

I've got to find that, everything is possible with time is true

 

[Johnnybravo]

Going by that second pic, are you Egyptian? (I'll get my coat)

Danish…..

 

[My Old Landy]

As a manual machinist I tend to make tools and swarf
Sometimes I just like putting the cutter through for fun