Slotting Head

Yep, I've got a redundant one off a Parkson that I'd gladly give away. A real toe snubber. Postage might smart though....:-(

Tom

Thanks Tom! Why does that alawys happen...the right thing but it's in New Zealand?

What size is an M0?

I've got one for an O2/U2, still have the mill for it but will probably never use it again. Bought it 'new', cost me a few quid so I wouldn't offer to be quite as 'generous' as Tom

Cheers Tm

Excuse for a holiday in New Zealand perhaps?

AWEM

Actually my sister is flying back to the UK on Sunday, but drew the line at the excess baggage cost, when approachd about it! :-(

Tom She will be bringing some fine weather, tho..

I got a U2 slotting head I think,will check tomorrow.Definitely got a slotting head might be wrong about the model.Is inside but will have surface rust.You can have it for nothing but the Palletline cost would be £38+vat. Of course if that well known national haulier coming this way you would get it for nothing. Kind regards,Mark

Good news and bad news.The head is for an Elliott U0 machine and on looking round the store I found a little Elliott universal mill.Not sure if it`s a U0,U1 or U2. Anybody know the difference? regards,Mark.

We will be going to Edinburgh Haymarket at some time just after Xmas and before the New Year, could bring it back for Charles then if all else is OK.

Peter

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I *think* the U1 is just a U2 without the power feed to the knee, the U0 is probably smaller. I'm sure one of the manuals I have gives some of the details, but of course it's the one I can't find. I'll look again later.

Cheers Tim

Still can't find that manual, but the U1 & U2 share the same basic column, the U2 has a bigger table & more powerful motor & I *think* I'm right about the knee feeds - the U2 has feed to all three movements, I have it in the back of my mind that the U2 only has a table (X) feed. The U2 table is45" x 11", the U1 is around the 35" x 9" mark.

The U0 I know nothing about, but if Charles is lucky it'll be the same size as an M0

Cheers Tim

Mark

Many thanks for looking in the back of your store!

Can't say that I know the details for sure but I've worked out some differences between the U2 and the M0 (with Tims help).

On the M0 the distance across the vees on the coulm is 7.25 inches and on the U2 the distance is 8 3/4 inches. The slotting head locates using the vees and the "boss" around the spindle. This location boss is just under 6 inches on my machine (and I think the U2 is the same). Both machines have 40INT drives so in the middle there is a 3.5" boss with the taper in it.

I'd hope that the U0 is a universal version of the M0 - that would be luck.

I'll email you a couple of pictures off group to help the ID

Regards

Charles

The Victoria MO has a 30" x 7" table, 50-1000 rpm, 2016 lb a slotting head was never offered.

Elliott machines:

UO has a 36" x 9" table - 45-1215 rpm, 2128 lb, slotting head available U1 has a 40" x 11" table - 31-1010 rpm, 2800 lb, " " " U2 has a 45" x 11" table - 31-1010 rpm, 3136 lb, " " "

As the column on the MO is of the same style as the UO, adaptation shouldn't be a biggie.

Tom

U as UO stands for Universal as in the U1 & U2 models, I neglected to mention this in my previous post. Whereas the MO is a plain milling machine.

Tom

The 'plain' version of the U2 is the P2. Does yours have any power feeds? if not, perhaps M0 is for 'Manual'? But maybe that implies more of a logical naming system than we should expect

Cheers Tim

Tim/Tom

Thanks for your inputs. Mine has a mechanical power feed to the table and is plain - universal would have been nice but plain was what came my way. I suspect that they changed from M to P as a designation at some stage. And contrary to Tom's thought that the M0 never had a slotting head I have a copy of the original M0 manual that says a slotting head was available as an accessory - that doesn't of course mean that they made any!

Regards

Charles

A little extra aside for the seriously sad milling machine anoraks:- I'd assumed that the '00' Omnimil was derived from a size 0 horizontal, as the O1 & O2 are derived from the U1 & U2, and so the little Omnimil popular with model engineers would be the O0 (letter O for Omnimil, size Zero). It seems not, it's quite a bit smaller and is based on the '181' mill, and really is a 'double zero'. Or maybe a 'double O'

Cheers Tim

Should be 00U or OOU as the Omnimill was a universal and not plain. Yes I know sad isn't it

-- Regards,

John Stevenson Nottingham, England.

Back in 1956, a slotting head was not one of the extras listed in the catalogue. Perhaps your is a later model..

Tom