Let's See Your Mill

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This is my mill about a month after delivery, about 3.5 years ago. It came with the power feeds on all axis, to allow me to use it, and I had just taken off the 2 axis DRO and fitted a 3 axis one. The one I took off was then fitted to my new lathe, to take it up to a 4 axis DRO.

It is an 836, mini Bridgeport type, a full sized one wouldn't fit because of the ceiling height, 2HP, full variable speed up to 2200, and hasn't missed a beat in all the time I have had it.



I later fitted a 4th axis to the quill using a cheapo Chinese scale running off a wall wart through a transformer so no batteries, just a capacitor between the battery terminals, and then feeding the readout to a small scale fitted on top of my normal DRO.



A few months later, I then converted a Bridgeport right angle drive and matching horizontal arbor to fit my machine, and it works an absolute treat.



It required a pair of tapered blocks making, to change the angle to what my machine uses.



I can now sit at this mill all day and machine to my hearts desire.

John