Afternoon Luke,

On my Tom Senior M1 mill, power feed is only in one direction, table traverses from left to right.

I do believe that one or two forum members have investigated having power feed in both directions but as yet I haven't seen any feedback on this forum.

Len.

I have a Junior mill, but I think the principal is the same.

I've never understood why the table goes from left to right. That's the wrong direction when horizontal milling. The cutter turns anti clockwise when viewed from the front in horizontal mode, therefore the table should go against that, i.e right to left.

This is my solution. Simple when you think about it.

The stop mechanism works as expected in either direction.

Graham

Just checked in the manual and it confirms anti-clockwise is the correct rotation.

Ahh, sounds like the M1 operates slightly different to the Junior.

To engage power feed on the Junior I pull up on the lever at the right hand side of the knee.

I disengage power feed by rotating the lever in the middle of the knee anti clockwise.

Two dogs can be positioned anywhere on the front of the table to automatically disengage the power feed, which it does by pressing down on a pin in the middle of the knee. Depressing this pin has the same effect as rotating the disengagement knob anti clockwise.

Looks like we still have a selection of left to right and right to left people though.

Luke,

The M1 has a separate idler wheel used for tensioning the belt for the table feed. It might make for an interesting crossover arrangement.

Its different to the Junior picture I posted which doesn't have any mechanism to tension the belt, hence the stretchy polycord.

Graham