Let's See Your Mill

[hswaters]

(05-09-2012, 11:54 AM)Dave J Wrote: Here is mine, it has changed a bit since the photo was taken, but still basically the same machine.

It's a HM52 which is the Grizzly 3617 over in the US. It has both vertical and horizontal spindles, and come fitted with a power feed on the X and I added the Y and Z power feeds.
I has a 3 axis Sino DRO and I have fitted a glass quill scale as well. I also moved the X scale to the front and added way covers for coolant use.

Just after getting the machine I pulled it right down to the column and went through the lot giving it a good clean up. I also cleaned up some of the inside of the castings so I don't have to do it when I CNC it.

Pulling down a new $5000 dollar mill is not something everyone does, but this was a replacement after sending back 2 others and I wanted to make sure it was right and would last me for years. Also having owned this same type of mill before hand I was familiar with it and it's workings.

I have done plenty of mods, but I will post them up in other sections when I get to them.

The yellow you see in some photos is the factory paint and was on all the inside casting. I ended up with a 3 ltr ice cream container full of casting sand out of it after cleaning it up. Also found plenty of it in the oiler etc.

Dave

From the photos I would guess you really like red. My wife does not like greasy old machines but I know she would like your shop, she is a red addict also.