Morning all, I picked up this machine by accident as I went to buy a lathe and this was too much fun to leave behind!
I’m going to use this as my first proper scraping practice of dovetails, alignment etc rather than just making things flatter than they are at moment.
I shall take the little table and knee with me on the scraping course Clive is holding and hopefully progress enough during the week to maybe make a start, or at least have some idea where to start.
It’s not much use to me as a mill due to having the Alexander so was considering a few mods to use as a grinder for tooling, small surface grinding work etc.
She will need bearings to handle the shaft speed.
This thing already has rack and pinion drive to all axis, well parts of it are there.
This will be a great learning project on a rebuild and one that doesn’t really matter if it goes terribly wrong.
I’m going to use this as my first proper scraping practice of dovetails, alignment etc rather than just making things flatter than they are at moment.
I shall take the little table and knee with me on the scraping course Clive is holding and hopefully progress enough during the week to maybe make a start, or at least have some idea where to start.
It’s not much use to me as a mill due to having the Alexander so was considering a few mods to use as a grinder for tooling, small surface grinding work etc.
She will need bearings to handle the shaft speed.
This thing already has rack and pinion drive to all axis, well parts of it are there.
This will be a great learning project on a rebuild and one that doesn’t really matter if it goes terribly wrong.