How they make a milling machine

How they make a milling machine

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11 May 2023 at 07:44 #644693
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I have seached YouTube and Google but cant seem to find a video on how a milling machine (or even a Lathe) is made.

Anyone have any links please
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11 May 2023 at 07:44 #29171
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11 May 2023 at 07:55 #644694
JasonB
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11 May 2023 at 08:10 #644695
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Cheers Jason

I did find this where some makes a home made one
11 May 2023 at 08:59 #644696
Neil Lickfold
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He has a video of making a lathe too. Not sure what he did for the headstock spindle. Determined fellow thats for sure.
11 May 2023 at 11:30 #644704
peak4
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The World Turns on a Colchester apparently

This one is more about rebuilding rather than first manufacture, but related and quite interesting

Bill
11 May 2023 at 12:09 #644705
Dave Halford
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There's a photo out there somewhere of a prismatic lathe bed being gang milled all in one go by a big horizontal mill.
11 May 2023 at 12:15 #644706
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Ceriani used to have a video of that but they are not making machines now.

This is a rebuild but interesting to see how the tool does not initially cut as it passes the worn areas of the bed.
11 May 2023 at 14:43 #644714
Ian P
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I like the lavatory chain on the clapper box retractor!

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11 May 2023 at 18:38 #644747
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Odd, there's something strange happened on the embedded videos on this thread.

The two on my post were, The World Turns on a Colchester as the first one, and the Suburban Tools machine re-build as the second.

This was followed by Jason's second post with a video or photo of a planer on a prismatic bed.
That's now vanished, and been replaced with the Suburban tools one from my post.

Bill
11 May 2023 at 18:55 #644752
JasonB
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I'm still seeing them as they should be?

This is the repair video again
11 May 2023 at 19:19 #644760
Dave Halford
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fine for me
11 May 2023 at 20:12 #644767
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Posted by Dave Halford on 11/05/2023 19:19:13:

fine for me

Most odd, fine for me now too.

Bill
12 May 2023 at 05:12 #644813
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Judt wstched the Colchester video. Just the kind of thing i was looking for. Brill
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