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ovenpaa wrote:Today's trip to Trafalgar was cancelled for a number of reasons so I headed out to the shed and put some additional bracing into the bench in area the mill is going to sit on and have just given the uprights a coat of satin black paint in keeping with the rest, I am fairly confident it is good for 500kgs now so more than enough to cope with the Mill.

Work light is in place as well.

Just need a Mill now to nail in place.

Yes,
And Stock to play with, and vises, lots of Milling cutters, cutting fluid, clamping kit, Vee-blocks, dial gauges & bases, calipers, verniers, depth gauges, rules, squares, rotary table, dividing head, etc. etc. etc......ad infinitum........ :lol:

Andy632 wrote:Yes,
And Stock to play with, and vises, lots of Milling cutters, cutting fluid, clamping kit, Vee-blocks, dial gauges & bases, calipers, verniers, depth gauges, rules, squares, rotary table, dividing head, etc. etc. etc......ad infinitum........ :lol:

I have some stock, depth gauge, DTI's, verniers, mic's, machine vice, parallels, T bolt clamps, cutters etc. What I do not have is the rotary table or dividing head.

A rotary table that takes a Myford chuck would be handy as I have a couple of spares, and I still do not have any V Blocks.

First couple of projects are for the machine, I need to build a trammel bar with a couple of DTI's for set-up (I think that is what they are called) I also need to make a fly cutter and the machine I looked at did not have a positive stop for returning the head to zero. The new ones may well have one fitted but if not I can soon make and fit one.

No doubt there are many more things I will need along the way, the important thing is not to decided I need a bigger Milling machine as I certainly don't have room for it.

have a look at this site i know its not English manufacture but ive bought chucks 3 and 4 jaw rotary table and quite a few bits ,i keep going back .

:-P :?:

Dellboy, you need to add the link!

i know
http://www.rdgtools.co.uk/

bloody computers

Ah yes, I know RDG Tools, they are the ones that are going to be the new Myford people? All I have purchased from them so far was a thread gauge at a show but they seem to have a very good stock list.

ovenpaa wrote:Ah yes, I know RDG Tools, they are the ones that are going to be the new Myford people? All I have purchased from them so far was a thread gauge at a show but they seem to have a very good stock list.

I've had a few orders from RDG most delivered within 5 days and arrived on the date they said they would. Not too bad for delivery to the Highlands.

Well it has arrived, apparently I have a rather large packing case that will not fit through the door sitting outside the house right now.

Hmm...