mini mill

[dallen]

(07-08-2012, 12:23 PM)henryarnold Wrote: If you find that you need parts, Little Machine Shop has all of the parts for the Mini Mill.

http://www.littlemachineshop.com/product...1311958022

http://www.littlemachineshop.com/product...category=6

some of the parts at Little Machine Shop will fit my mill but parts aren't the problem. Problem lies in the machine work that was done in china I have the base and saddle done now and am fixing to start on the dovetail on the column to make sure that it is parallel and smooth, most of the dovetails look like they had been cut with a chisel, well not quite that bad.

this is one of those projects that has been pushed to the side for a couple of years now, mainly because I was reluctant to do it. but now that I am into it I figure might as well go for the full meal deal and do all of em.

also found that the surface that fits against the column where it pivots hasn't even been machined, so now I get to figure out how to make a very large circular cut without having to make a bunch of passes with a small cutter Guess I could use the boring head set it up to cut the full circle then I would only have to move about a half inch to cut the full surface, will have to see.

Heres a photo of the part that mounts the column to the base, as you can see from the photo they didn't even do a face cut on the part. the surface that mounts to the base was machined not sure yet how square.