Fitting a milling vice to a Sieg C3 lathe

[Roger HartParticipant @rogerhart88496]

I have a Sieg C3 type lathe and picked up a milling vertical slide/vice recently.  This has a hefty 90 bracket and a vertical slide and a vice attached.  A little bit big for the C3 but never mind.

Firstly,  if I remove the topslide by undoing two allen screws holding the topslide swivel down does a plate under the crosslide swivel stay in place or fall out?  Not a big problem but a nuisance to avoid.

Secondly the commercial vertical slides look as if they fit in this place,  but it looks a bit too far away from the chuck centreline to be particularly convenient – but saves drilling holes in the crosslide casting.

I have contemplated buying a spare crosslide casting and modding that if necessary.

Has anyone any experience or words of advice?

 

 

 

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

The Sieg one is intended to mount using the two screws that hold the topslide and also has a hole to clear the central pin.

Plate won’t drop out.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Prepare to be disappointed!  Whilst extraordinary work was done in the past with milling slides on lathes, my experience of one on a mini-lathe was deeply frustrating. Fundamental problem is space, rigidity and movement are all severely restricted such that jobs that are easy on a real mill are downright difficult on a milling slide.

My slide annoyed me so much I saved up for a mill.

Dave

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