Yes I just found Ades Workshop recently, I enjoyed his strip down and rebuild of his new Warco milling machine, a WM16 I think it was.

Is your newly aquired Tom Senior the E type that was shown on this forum recently? If so your a lucky chap, very nice machines for the home workshop.

Edited By Lathejack on 09/03/2020 23:24:38

Sorry I was mistaken, the E type Tom Senior mill is the one with the round verticle collumn but which stil has the same quill feed swivelling milling head. I saw the recent posts showing a close up photo of the Tom Senior that was for sale and didn't look close enough and assumed it was the E type model.

Anyway, you've got yourself a fabulous machine.

Edited By Lathejack on 10/03/2020 00:23:40

Edited By Lathejack on 10/03/2020 00:25:08

Don't be in too much of a rush to put a bigger motor on it, due to the machine using belts  you will be getting the full 1/2hp in all speed ranges. Don't compare the motor size with that on variable speed machines which tend to have a larger hp motor to compensate for not getting all the beans at lower revs.

You even said in the other thread you only wanted to do light work yet first thing you are talking about is upping the power on this one and possibly pushing the rest of the machine harder than intended?

I think you have the "LIGHT Vertical" so ideal for light detailed work not big hogging cuts.

Edited By JasonB on 10/03/2020 08:06:13

I would recommend you reading through Jason,s "Milling for Beginners" series in the workshop mags. Also his build threads on his engines, you dont need to be building the engine/item but his pictures show the set ups both lathe and mill and how parts were produced I learnt a tremendous amount from those.

Ideal for light work or bigger stuff using light cuts and not massive tooling eg the MT2 taper is a bit slim for using say an 80mm indexable facsimile but the Warco would have been fine though still needing appropriate depth of cut.

Putting a big motor on that would be like putting your GTR engine in a Micra and expecting the breaks, suspension etc to cope. Even with the VFD use the belts to get you in the right speed range just like a car gearbox then vfd is your throttle but don't spend all the time off the cam, below the turbos boost range or running on the rev limiter

No need for WD40 Paraffin is plenty good enough.

Tony

+ 1 from me NOT to fit a bigger motor – it's front flange mounted so it's going to be quite a job to marry a bigger frame size onto the top of the head, but you'll never use the extra power anyway – the dear little vee belt is only a Z section and there is no way of tightening it hard, so don't bother. I regularly use a 40 mm face mill on mine in either of the two lower speeds, it's possible to stall the cutter because the belts slip (edit – correction – belt slips!) but it's a great deal more difficult to stall the motor.

It's a lovely machine, treat it kindly!

I'll find a previous post discussing serial numbers in a mo, there's something in an earlier thread. More shortly.

Best rgds Simon

PS Pictures of mine and various repairs in my album.

Edited By Simon Williams 3 on 10/03/2020 20:33:58