Making lathe milling attachment on a mill
 

HF does not carry milling bits. And, if they did, I doubt they'd be very
good (my rule, as a long and loyal HF customer is, never buy anything with
an edge on it; it won't have one for long...). MSC sells good quality bits
at good prices with fairly fast delivery.

Jerry

"Ignoramus32621" wrote in message
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I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill. I am in search of tips and pointers. I am going to check if
HF sells milling bits etc. I will try to do something this weekend.

i
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"Ignoramus32621" wrote in message
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I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill.

Am I missing something here?

Or are you just looking for a doodle project?

In which case, I'd look at the Gingery series, basically take a slab of CRS,
bolt it to a flat plane, square (more or less) to the other slides, mount a
carriage and leadscrew on it with table for the work and you're done.

Tim

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Jerry Foster wrote:
HF does not carry milling bits. And, if they did, I doubt they'd be very
good (my rule, as a long and loyal HF customer is, never buy anything with
an edge on it;

...or an electrical plug ;)


it won't have one for long...).

Jerry Foster wrote:

HF does not carry milling bits. And, if they did, I doubt they'd be very
good (my rule, as a long and loyal HF customer is, never buy anything with
an edge on it; it won't have one for long...). MSC sells good quality bits
at good prices with fairly fast delivery.

Jerry

"Ignoramus32621" wrote in message
...

I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill. I am in search of tips and pointers. I am going to check if
HF sells milling bits etc. I will try to do something this weekend.

i
--



Every HF store I've been in carries sets of common end-milling cutters.
Many are TiN plated (big deal ... NOT!). But I agree that their quality
is highly suspect at best.

Dan Mitchell
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:16:16 -0500, "Tim Williams"
wrote:

"Ignoramus32621" wrote in message
...
I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill.

Am I missing something here?

Or are you just looking for a doodle project?

In which case, I'd look at the Gingery series, basically take a slab of CRS,
bolt it to a flat plane, square (more or less) to the other slides, mount a
carriage and leadscrew on it with table for the work and you're done.

Tim


He wants to get rid of his new minty Clausing mill. So he has to make
a flimsy and flexible, not particularly good for much. milling
attachment to replace it.

:/


Gunner

Rule #35
"That which does not kill you,
has made a huge tactical error"

In article ,
Ignoramus32621 wrote:

I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill. I am in search of tips and pointers. I am going to check if
HF sells milling bits etc. I will try to do something this weekend.

i
--

I've been taking a machine shop class this semester and I got to do
learning on both a real mill and a milling attachment on a lathe. The
attachment was absolutely infuriating--the worst part about it was that
I couldn't lock the carriage so sometimes while cutting it would push
(or worse, pull!) the piece, carriage, milling setup. Wound up giving
up on the thing once it shifted, snapped off a mill and did all it could
to lodge it into my forehead.
POINTER: If you go through with this, make sure to also rig up some
sort of locking system. Or shields. And get a ton of practice on your
mill while you have it so you know what's going wrong when your
attachment starts misbehaving.
TIP: Might spend time building a shed to house the mill instead of
making a substitute. Probably cost you less, work better, and be safer
in the long run.

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http://web2.airmail.net/thegoat4/

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:16:16 -0500, Tim Williams wrote:
"Ignoramus32621" wrote in message
...
I would really like to make a milling attachment for my lathe, using
my mill.

Am I missing something here?
Or are you just looking for a doodle project?

That's my guess, or he wants to sell the mill later maybe? Nothing wrong
with doodle projects though. You know, "I'm building a tool holder to hold
the tools that I need to make a tool holder with" kind of things.