WTB upper half of a Clausing mill

column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

Which Clausing mill?

Horizontal or vertical?

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

Well, I had a Bridgeport M head, sold it just a week ago.

column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

Hey Rex,

Where are you located?? I have a model "M" Bridgeport head that I guess I probably won't ever use again. It has the Morse MT2 spindle. Not up to the specs of the Clausing, but if you don't get a better one..lemme know and we'll see.

Brian Lawson, Bothwell, Ontario (about 70 miles due east of Detroit, Michigan.)

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

That would be a very very good combination!!!

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

Could be a handy thing to have in reserve. A chap I used to know mounted an M head on the cross slide of one of his lathes and used it for a helical milling job. The job was some sort of hydraulic heat exchanger and was formed of thick walled tube where fluid flowed down the bore and in the helical passage milled in the outer surface. The lathe was set as per thread cutting for the pitch of the helical passage and the M head milled the slot as it went rather than using a large single point tool. Worked very well from what I saw. I can't remember what the lathe was but it was around 20" swing.

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

hmmmm...maybe I should look at using it as "live tooling" on my 15" CNC lathe?!?!?!

Brian Lawson.

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

Ive got a buddy who uses M and J heads for all sorts of similar setups. But he works on Big Iron...20' shafts, 5' gears..that sort of stuff.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

This is an early 8520. I'm in Fort worth TX.

I guess i need to look at an M-Head. Seems to me like a BP head would be too big for this little base. Here's what it looks like:

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the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

At the moment I an interested in making it into a precision drill press, with a good DP head or mill head. I do quite a bit of drilling on my millrite, and I'm scared to death I'm going to mark that perfect table one day. This Clausing table is surprisingly unblemished, but I wouldn't lose as much sleep if I drilled a hole in it.

I toyed with mounting a minimill column on it, but the inherent flex in those makes it a last resort. Besides, with a big base and a small head it would remind of FLOTUS everytime I looked at it.

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

big for this little base.

Rex, how about installing a grinding head on it? You could have yourself a nice surface grinder. You could probably get by with a cheap grinder or some such, or make a grinder with some pillow blocks and a motor. Easy low tech fun project.

I find that if you grind a piece of junk and call it "ground surface" you can get 3x for it.

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

big for this little base.

Ayup..M head, or a number of other small heads. A J head Bridgeport simply wouldnt work.

Ill hunt round and see what I can come up with. Those little mills are pretty handy for a lot of hobby stuff.

Gunner

The methodology of the left has always been:

1. Lie
2. Repeat the lie as many times as possible
3. Have as many people repeat the lie as often as possible
4. Eventually, the uninformed believe the lie
5. The lie will then be made into some form oflaw
6. Then everyone must conform to the lie

the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can probably fab the rest.

big for this little base.

I get a 404 or something with the A few more images at