My brother was tidying out a shed for a family friend.......

[Rannsachair]

Isn't that grey bit on the wall a support arm for an horizontal milling machine?

 

[Seadog]

?

 

[Rannsachair]

?

@Memmeddu was asking what the horizontal arm on the wall was for.

 

[Memmeddu]

@Memmeddu was asking what the horizontal arm on the wall was for.

Might sound weird but machines that small are kinda inexistent over here, you might find lathes like unimats and similar but small shapers, milling machine or even tools and cutters grinders are soon to zero here in Italy.
It's weird but seeing those little ones is kinda funny for me, I'm a machinist and I'm used to machinery that weights at least 1 ton.
I've been very lucky to find my lathe Wich can be man lifted and moved around but my cold saw even if small already requires a crane to move it

 

[Seadog]

@Memmeddu was asking what the horizontal arm on the wall was for.

I can't see a horizontal arm in that picture.

 

[Rannsachair]

Might sound weird but machines that small are kinda inexistent over here, you might find lathes like unimats and similar but small shapers, milling machine or even tools and cutters grinders are soon to zero here in Italy.
It's weird but seeing those little ones is kinda funny for me, I'm a machinist and I'm used to machinery that weights at least 1 ton.
I've been very lucky to find my lathe Wich can be man lifted and moved around but my cold saw even if small already requires a crane to move it

They are popular with model engineers, though small, they are well made, even my benchtop one weighs over 360 Kg, I like using it for small jobs, I have a larger mill too.

I can't see a horizontal arm in that picture.

Its in my first post of the Clarke drill.

 

[RWD3M]

I think @Seadog may have been referring to this:

 

[Seadog]

Ah, posting the right photo makes all the difference

 

[Beanwood]

Ah, posting the right photo makes all the difference

He was posting a photo IN RESPONSE to that photo....(Which has now been posted twice. )

 

[RWD3M]

He was posting a photo IN RESPONSE to that photo....(Which has now been posted twice. )

What are you talking about?

 

[dobbslc]

Five past eight...

 

[Seadog]

He was posting a photo IN RESPONSE to that photo....(Which has now been posted twice. )

Don't you start