brewdexta
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My birthday isn't too far away and I want to get in early with pressie requests before I get the usual direct to land fill novelty carp.
I have some bronze castings to mill up, they will replace the cast iron double mitre from a 1950s Wadkin table saw. They always get lost of broken and are like hens teeth to find.
They look like this now. Roughly 400mm long in two parts. I have two sets to mill.
It should look like this, so some interesting milling operations to perform.
These are the weapons I'll be using. I'm currently replacing the motor and VFD on the nearest mill to something a bit more VFD friendly, 2HP rather than 1HP. The horizontal arbour is only on there while I did a bit of measuring, I don't tend to leave it in without the overarm on. The far mill is vertical but manual feed only, the near mill has power feed.
I have a few horizontal milling cutters, but no fly cutters or face mill. The horizontal mill also has a fixed vertical head so I can use fly cutters/face mills in there if I need power feed. Both vertical arbours are 2MT, the horizontal is 3MT.
I have ER20 and ER32 2MT collet chucks and a 2MT boring head already.
I can get a 2MT indexable face mill from the usual ArcEurotrade/RDG/Chronos for not too much, just about in the Birthday pressie range, but what diameter? What about a fly cutter, may be good for the base?
I'm going to invite my neighbour around who is a tool maker at an aerospace company, but I thought I would ask the collective what tooling.
I am going to take this particular project slowly and carefully as those casting weren't cheap. I only have drawings for one half of the mitre at the moment, I'm working on the other.
Cheers
Andy
I have some bronze castings to mill up, they will replace the cast iron double mitre from a 1950s Wadkin table saw. They always get lost of broken and are like hens teeth to find.
They look like this now. Roughly 400mm long in two parts. I have two sets to mill.
It should look like this, so some interesting milling operations to perform.
These are the weapons I'll be using. I'm currently replacing the motor and VFD on the nearest mill to something a bit more VFD friendly, 2HP rather than 1HP. The horizontal arbour is only on there while I did a bit of measuring, I don't tend to leave it in without the overarm on. The far mill is vertical but manual feed only, the near mill has power feed.
I have a few horizontal milling cutters, but no fly cutters or face mill. The horizontal mill also has a fixed vertical head so I can use fly cutters/face mills in there if I need power feed. Both vertical arbours are 2MT, the horizontal is 3MT.
I have ER20 and ER32 2MT collet chucks and a 2MT boring head already.
I can get a 2MT indexable face mill from the usual ArcEurotrade/RDG/Chronos for not too much, just about in the Birthday pressie range, but what diameter? What about a fly cutter, may be good for the base?
I'm going to invite my neighbour around who is a tool maker at an aerospace company, but I thought I would ask the collective what tooling.
I am going to take this particular project slowly and carefully as those casting weren't cheap. I only have drawings for one half of the mitre at the moment, I'm working on the other.
Cheers
Andy