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  1. #1
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    Default Milling machine set ups.

    Greetings Chaps. I thought that with the popularity of Shapers on this forum something should be done for Milling Machines. I have never had a shop that has not had a Mill. At a factory I had two of the beasties both belt driven. One a Taiwanese vertical and the other a Richmond Horizontal with a vertical and a slotting attachments. I have included pics of a set up on the table at present. The Mill is an ARNO an Italian machine. I have found that the table slots did not suit my clamping set which is 12 mm bolts. The tee nuts that came with the machine were a sorry lot. So I have made some new ones. I clamped a sub table to the mill table to hold the vice. This table was made twenty years ago while I was at RMIT on the Taiwanese belt driven machine which had no feeds. It is about 18 inches long 1/14 thick and 10 inches wide. Machined all over with 4 tee slots to suit my clamping set. In between the slots I have drilled a series of 1/2 inch Whitworth holes. I thought that while I was doing this job I could extent the capacity of the table to a degree by turning the sub table 90 degrees so it stuck out the front of the machine. Perhaps it could be of interest. I would like to see other set ups which is where you get ideas.
    Yours 4-6-4

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    I can see that being handy. Is it made from cast iron or steel and why? I mean why the material choice? Is there any disadvantage in using steel for this sort of thing?

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    Default Milling

    Dear Drian, The material is cast iron I was a student at the RMIT foundry school when this was made. I can,t remember why I made it but there would have been a reason. A lump of steel this size would have been hard to procure and harder to work than the cast iron. It certainly came in handy to hold the vice to make the tee nuts to suit the mill table. So probably it will go back into storage. I work on the theroy that if you have it you might find a use for it, yours 4-6-4

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    Find it always best to make your angle plates stackable for that larger job that comes along. Hehee.


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