Filing machines

[Tractor manParticipant @tractorman]

[Tractor manParticipant @tractorman]

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.

Regards,

 

Mick

[DuncParticipant @dunc]

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’.

 

[Tractor manParticipant @tractorman]

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

[Tractor manParticipant @tractorman]

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.

 

Regards

 

[BogstandardParticipant @bogstandard]

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

 

 

John

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