Let's See Your Mill

[Vinny]

New member here, first post.  Here's my old mill.  It's an old Bromson Number 7, made in Detroit.  There's some condos or apartments now where the factory used to be.

The mill is alot cleaner now than in this pic but I haven't taken any pics lately.  It was quite a rusty mess when I got it.  The motor may very well be the original motor, it's only 1/4 HP but it hasn't slowed down for anything I've done on it.  The Y axis (in out) was missing the crank so I made one out of some aluminum I had laying around. The X axis crank (can't see it in this pic) doubles as the Z axis (up/down) crank.  There is no quill but I really haven't missed it.  The main limitation is it uses 3C collets and those don't go much above 1/2".  In the pic it's mounted to a benchtop.



Vince.