Filing machines

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1 October 2011 at 21:10 #11830
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1 October 2011 at 21:10 #75671
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Hi all, I would appreciate any information on filing machines. I have heard of Thiel machines and found some images on the web, but I am sure there are other makes, British perhaps? I am off to collect one tomorrow and when I find the maker I will be able to request information apecifically about that one. I want to use needle files and think I will have to make my own mounts for them.

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Mick
2 October 2011 at 02:48 #75684
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Harold Hall wrote a construction article for a filing machine starting in MEW 161, March 2010.

One of the segments had suggestions for adapting hand files; another had sources for purchasing machine files.

MEW 155 also had a die filer on the cover but I don’t believe that a formal article with drawings followed.

The Workshop Practice Series #31 also has construction drawings and notes.

Popular Mechanics had an article: “Mechanics of Machine Filing” in the July 1943 issue.

You can obtain it from

http://books.google.com/books?id=RdMDAAAAMBAJ

At the same url you can obtain plans to construct several machines: look at Feb 1941, Oct 1947, Mar 1957.

Searches on other machining forums, for example, Home Model Engine Machinist & Home Shop Machinist will certainly provide many threads. Don’t have an urls, tho’.
3 October 2011 at 13:07 #75750
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I collected the unit on Sunday, it looks like a Milwaukee filing machine but has no manufacturers marks or plates.

It also looks like a “New Wonder” filing machine, one of which has just popped up on ebay. If anyone has any information or better yet a handbook for either machine I would be grateful.

I am going to strip and refurb the unit so need as much information as possible.

Cheers,

Mick
3 October 2011 at 13:10 #75751
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Also any ideas on file suppliers for the type of files involved, I know I can modify handfiles but would love to have some of the “proper thing” to work off.

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3 October 2011 at 14:28 #75754
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I searched for months to find a supplier rather than businesses that would make them, for a price.

The place I eventually found to supply me some is here.

http://www.victornet.com/subdepartments/Parallel-Machine-Files/2215.html?id=TzmenX8s

Go down this post to see how I got to that site

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=43223

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