Machining for port work

[Deets066]

I'll get a pic of the mill tomorrow, just a place I'm workin at installing some stuff, last day tomorrow

 

[Termitebuffet]

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I really wanted a lathe just a little bigger ......lol [emoji13]

Zoo City Sawz

 

[Al Smith]

All this talk about a boring bar and I thought it was for a milling machine .That thing is a little boring mill VTL or whatever they call it these days .

I used to work at a place called Baldwin -Lima -Hamilton,once a builder of large steam locomotives ,some of the largest ever made .They had huge Niles and Bullard boring mills with tables maybe 20 feet wide .--I've never seen one that small .

 

[Deets066]

Got to play with the mill a little today

 

[Deets066]

 

[MG2186]

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Nice!


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[Al Smith]

Well okay it is a milling machine after all .What do you call that thing?

 

[drf256]

Double Nice Deets!

 

[Deets066]

Well okay it is a milling machine after all .What do you call that thing?

Which thing

 

[Deets066]

Double Nice Deets!

Been kinda slow, thought I'd put her up here too

 

[Moparmyway]

Had the bottom 3 show .019 and the top one shows .0185

 

[czar800]

Great job Deets!!

 

[Al Smith]

Which thing

That thing, machine . I've never seen anything exactly like that before.

 

[Moparmyway]

Had the bottom 3 show .019 and the top one shows .0185View attachment 15975

Made a few cuts with a 25" and square 404 with a 7 tooth. She is alot more snappy now, I'll put the 36" 404 setup on and run her a little next weekend

 

[Deets066]

That thing, machine . I've never seen anything exactly like that before.

It's a Lagun end mill. I used a manual rotary table to turn the part.

You've heard of a Bridgeport right? This is the same machine except this is slightly bigger than most Bridgeports

 

[Al Smith]

Oh course I know what a Bridgeport mill is ,I own one. I looked up Lagun of which I'd never heard of but didn't find anything like that .So is it a specialty machine of some sort .It doesn't have the traditional milling machine slide table with x and y axis . Am I missing something ?

I'm not making sport of it but with a real Bridgeport traditional design machine ,it will tilt,nod,turn sideways ,up side down if you wanted .Add a right angle quill and a rotary table and maybe a turn vice there is nothing you can't cut .
With one exception,I've yet to figure out how to mill threads on bolt stock like a CNC milling centers are capable of .On the other hand I've made gears with a little help from a lathe .

 

[Deets066]

Oh course I know what a Bridgeport mill is ,I own one. I looked up Lagun of which I'd never heard of but didn't find anything like that .So is it a specialty machine of some sort .It doesn't have the traditional milling machine slide table with x and y axis . Am I missing something ?

I'm not making sport of it but with a real Bridgeport traditional design machine ,it will tilt,nod,turn sideways ,up side down if you wanted .Add a right angle quill and a rotary table and maybe a turn vice there is nothing you can't cut .
With one exception,I've yet to figure out how to mill threads on bolt stock like a CNC milling centers are capable of .On the other hand I've made gears with a little help from a lathe .

Same as a Bridgeport but you won't find very many Bridgeports with a 3 hp motor.

I have a rotary table, Kurt vise, 4 jaw chuck for the rotary table, opposing dead center, and a right angle attachment for the quill

 

[Al Smith]

Well yeah that is but what is that yellow thing then? I thought that was what you were talking about.

As far as power that little Model M Bridgeport I have only has a half horse .Probably a good thing because it's the much dreaded round column type.Which is hoax because they'll do anything a 2 HP J model will do just not as fast.

Nice mill work BTW.

 

[Deets066]

The little yellow thing in the video is a digital caliper mounted to the quill for more accurate cutting depths

 

[Deets066]

It's not in the pic I just posted