I am ready to take the plunge and get a Mini-Mill. After reading all of the information I could find on Mini-Mills I could find, here is what I "think" I want...
I think it's better to have the head weighted upward. When making subsequent passes I loosening the gib just enough to allow the head to move when turning the...
... I'd keep the unimat. It has uses if it's complete enough. It's very good for small projects. ... You don't absolutely have to have metal timing gears. I...
Julian, The Cummins is just a good of choice as any other. Be sure to get it off a truck sale as Cummins will really bite you hard for freight if you order it....
I argued with myself over the mill choice - my thinking was that if I got the MT3, I could share tooling between the lathe and mill - after looking around and...
Hi Julian;
I have the Cummins Mini-Mill and it is just the same as all of the other Mini-Mills. The Z dial is marked in 0 to .060" and believe me you can take...
Wow, You folks are fast and give good advise!!!! THANKS!!!! I would love to keep the Unimat but I need to move it to finance the Mini-Mill. My bad on the...
I want to take a moment and tell Mr. Pitkin how much I like his advice. John said that he liked to have the head on his mill retract. Well when ever Mr....
I'm not sure which vise type your are contemplating, so take this with as many grains of salt as you like. I'd recommend getting a 3" vise screwless vise. I...
... Thank the photos were great and a good idea as well.. David Oulton , Canada ... aluminum plate a little thicker than the fine feed knob. I turned the ...
Thanks for the kind words, Bob! JP ... advice. John said that he liked to have the ... I read it because he usually is right on. So ... John you didn't say...
... Go to www.mini-lathe.com www.mini-mill.com or www.littlemachineshop.com to get more ideas. Follow the links to the workshop pictures to see what others...
If you're only wanting the cheapest (which is not a bad criterion in this case), Harbor Freight might work out to be cheaper for you. If you have a store in...
I do have a HF store about 60 miles away in Atlanta. I was there last W/E drooling all over everything. Cummins is not going to have a truck sale anywhere...
... I use DRO's myself. However, there are a few times I've used dial indicators, so please check www.dragonworks.info They're scattered lots of places. ...
The 20% off coupons used to be pretty common, but they're not as frequent as they used to be. They do have lots of other coupons, though, and they don't appear...
Julian, Mount a cheap digital caliper to the front side of the table. The body of the caliper is attached to the sliding part of the table. The movable jaw is...
I don't know squat about mini mills, their operation or their capabilities..... Is there a book I should look for, kinda "Mini-Mills for Complete Idiots"?...
Roger, go to Swarfrat.com and rent or buy their series on milling it's a great way to see what is going on They are not that expensive, 24$(I think) to buy and...
Hi ALL, The Swarfrat person is Lex. And he asks that you rent from Swarfrat,as the OTHER outfit basically is stealing HIS work. Maybe legally but certainly not...
... Best references are at www.mini-lathe.com www.mini-mill.com and www.littlemachineshop.com for the online stuff. Go through the workshop and project links...
Hello, I've owned the HF mini mill for some time now, and I've always known the chuck that came with mine is garbage -- runout is so huge it's visible to the...
Today I made a pair of cool little shaft couplers, for joining my new, bigger stepper motors to the ballscrews on my CNC mini-mill. The flanges are aluminum,...
... Noticed that. I got an upgrade from LMS, don't remember the number, but it was German made, not Chinese (and mine is an MT3) ... HF uses the R8 taper....
While I recommend the swarfrat dvd's with great enthusiasm, they are not the only instructional videos' out there. That is why I recommend Technical Video...
Thanks Harvey! That's the kind of info I was looking for. I'm going to consult my enco catalog and see what they have... thanks much! (Also, to answer your...
Hi Bob, I'm sorry if you took the message I wrote personally. It was not directed at you,but just to put the word out for anyone who did not know about that...
Greg, on that drill chuck..An idea from The Machinist Bedside reader #3. Put the drill chuck in a lathe chuck. Put another drill chuck in the tailstock with...
