Small verticle mill for home/hobby use

================= I'm not either but it beats a file.

Unka George (George McDuffee)

...and at the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ?A Fool lies here, who tried to hustle the East.?

Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka, ch. 5, heading (1892).

It also seems the benchmaster is without a quill, at least the one I was considering recently.

Does the Millrite have back gears in the head?

Thanks - Jim

Funny but no. It needs to go in my garage area (concrete floor) but must be mobile so that I can move things around depending on projects -- floor space is at a premium due to the woodworking tools :)

AG

Thanks for the link; you are right about the price.

Get rid of the woodworking tools!! :) Randy

The Millrite does have a quill, it does not have back gears in the head. The head rpm at 60Hz runs from 250 to 3400 via belt change. You can lower these speeds with a VFD.

I just went out to the shop and clamped a piece of steel to the table. With a 5/8" 4 flute end mill I had no trouble cutting 0.2" deep in one pass, hand fed. The mill is solid and precise.

Did I mention it comes with a milling vise, collets and a modest set of hold downs?

Steve

jim rozen wrote:

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:58:14 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Uh ooh.

Know a guy who is a walking encyclopedia of tech specs on all sorts of stuff. Including the weight capacity of floor jacks and the weight of small vertical mills. And the thought occurred to him, seeing a floor jack parked under one of those mills, that it would be a simple matter to pick up the mill and move it. Turn it around, in place. Or back it up to the other mill, so that the two mills would share one coolant tank; "makes the company more efficient, save on coolant and space." Probably a good thing that he realized that it would really require three people to do such a thing properly, although two could pull it off. But still ... weirder things get done. At least it was better than his idea to put the whole thing on casters ...

tschus pyotr

BT,DT with a B/port M head. Sure, you can lower the speed, but you lose torque. I fitted a J head so I could have slow speeds and torque.

I think it's a gem of a machine, too. I have a nice little horiz mill which I keep thinking of fitting the M head to. About the same footprint as the Millrite. Expect I'd end up using it more than the big B/port.

PDW

Then its incredibly easy to put this miller on a cart using minimal materials and scoot it around the shop. Id suggest using locking wheels though. Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

Making a fixed base with room for a pallet jack is pretty common in a lot of both hobby and commercial shops.

Some machine tools are actually planned this way...

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:13:08 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Yeah, but he wants to turn it around, then see how long it takes for someone 'offical' to notice.

Cool.

pyotr

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:13:08 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

Crikey, Gov! Has Omniturn ever sold a machine off that site?

It, um, needs work.

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Errrr, very tempting. Is there any chance it could be shipped?

Jim

That's a possibility. I'd hoped to sell it locally, but the market is pretty slow in Maine. I received a tool once that was just shipped bolted to a pallet in a moving truck (via a freight broker). I don't mind a little work making a sturdy pallet, maybe cover it in plywood.

I take it you're too far away to drive it? Years ago this much weight ran about $500 from a freight broker; I bet it is a little higher these days.

Steve

=================== Back in another life when I ran Sidecars-by-George, I used ForwardAir for most shipping. You will only need to bolt the mill to a skid. ForwardAir ships depot to depot, generally at major airports, but do have contract haulers for pick up and delivery [extra cost]

ForwardAir started out specializing in shipping displays to/between trade shows.

No idea what their costs are now with the fuel surcharges, etc., but worth checking into.

see:

...and at the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ?A Fool lies here, who tried to hustle the East.?

Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka, ch. 5, heading (1892).

Currently the backlog is 4 weeks on delivery. Yes...they sell machines. Ive sold..hummm 4 off that site this year. Plus a number of used ones based on that site.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

Thats a fairly easy one to ship. Get a nice fresh pallet, screw down a sheet of 3/4 ply over it, cut to fit, bolt the miller down to the sheet, add a few motor cycle straps if you dont have proper banding ($20 at HF for a decent enough set of 4) and ship it.

Figure adding $150 to the selling price for the materials and labor of prep.

Gunner

"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're around."

"Democrat. In the dictionary it's right after demobilize and right before demode` (out of fashion).

-Buddy Jordan 2001

=========== Was this what replaced the small [00] Brownies and Traubs in the US?

How do these compare for reliability/up-time?

Unka George (George McDuffee)

...and at the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ?A Fool lies here, who tried to hustle the East.?

Rudyard Kipling The Naulahka, ch. 5, heading (1892).

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:37:17 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Gunner quickly quoth:

I bet they'd quadruple sales if they put a bit of money into making it a decent website.

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