There is a drill to go with this as well but it's currently sitting in my car while I summon up the necessary strength. I certainly didn't need it but for the price I paid the base could be used on another project if I don't use the whole drill. I'm actually quite tempted to see if I could convert the drill into a lightweight milling machine although I have plenty enough projects on the go already.
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Jelly_Sheffield
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Bearing King have started selling Chinese bearings as "own brand", by basically doing QA on them on import to check that they're in spec.Blimey, I remember when Koyo WERE the "fake" bearings!
I have no doubt that they getting "the good batches" from the same manufacturers who are also supplying the fakers.
At the end of the day, a decent proportion of the fake bearings are basically indistinguishable from the real thing, it's just that being fake there's no consistency to the QA so no guarantees that your particular bearing will hold up as it should which can really matter for some applications.
From the looks of it that's a very good candidate turn into an entirely reasonable milling machine, as long as it will accommodate you adding a drawbar to the quill (which is normally the biggest limitation on drill to mill-drill projects).
If it's only running in deep groove ball bearings those may not hold up too well to milling, but it's very likely that you could find appropriately sized angular contact or taper roller bearings to replace the existing ones when they fail (or preemptively).
The runout may not end up being as good as a "real" mill (unless you spend roughly "one used Bridgeport worth" on a matched set of bearings), but it would probably be more than good enough to complement the accuracy of an inexpensive X-Y table.
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Looks more like a boring drill than a bench drill
It's a high speed drill. I like the built in z axis plus quill feed, which could simplify a conversion. It actually reminds me of an unusual mill that I used to own that also shared more than a passing resemblance to a boring machine.
I've already got a mill with a 40 int spindle but I wouldn't mind something a bit lighter and quieter for smaller jobs late in the evening. If I can manage to convert this for a reasonable price I think it could be worth keeping. Like I said earlier I didn't pay much for it.
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Owning a mill will inevitably make it much easier to build another one!
If it's high speed as well that will open up a bunch of possibilities, that's an exciting little project to get around to!
I bought my mill in part because the speed range (56-4500rpm) lets me use small (8mm) carbide and tiny (2mm) HSS end-mills in steel.
I would assume a dedicated high speed drill can probably go higher than that, so a conversion that preserves that could use very small tooling indeed (or mill aluminium very fast using carbide).
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I also like my cordless pump......
(Not my actual one but I'm sat on the khazi and a Tinternet photo was more convenient.)
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Stick a diamond wheel on that, and it's a proper giant - killer.....
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As a child, my brother had an old Ford Thames van on our drive and our father made us push it out and back every night and morning so he could park his car in the garage. Every morning and night l was the one pumping the tyres up with a knackered Sutty pump, that Kismet Lorry was revolutionary to this small child!Do "those" pumps actually work?
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I’m working away from home and needed a trolley jack so I bought this 1.5T beast yesterday.
Coffee cup ( & egg cup !) for scale
It’s so cute, a shame I don’t have time to wait for it to grow up so I took it back today.
You know it was cheap when my 2T upgrade was made by Einhell
Since when does it take 2 persons to lift a 10kg box with a toy trolley jack inside?
It’s been an experience
Coffee cup ( & egg cup !) for scale
It’s so cute, a shame I don’t have time to wait for it to grow up so I took it back today.
You know it was cheap when my 2T upgrade was made by Einhell
Since when does it take 2 persons to lift a 10kg box with a toy trolley jack inside?
It’s been an experience
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well maybe because it weighs 2010kg with the 2000kg added !Since when does it take 2 persons to lift a 10kg box with a toy trolley jack inside?
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A new toy for under £20! Appears to be functioning but haven't tested with a live cartridge as doesn't appear to have an internal suppressor system like the hilti dx450 I was playing with the other day so not very village friendly 
The "box" wasn't really up to the task but thankfully nothing got lost in the post and royal mail gave me a branded bag lol
The "box" wasn't really up to the task but thankfully nothing got lost in the post and royal mail gave me a branded bag lol
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