Geo Taylor &Sons milling machine table feed.

[Simon Lee 2Participant @simonlee2]

Evening all,

I was lucky enough to acquire a Taylor MkI mill recently, in good order, but minus its table feed. Looking on the lathes.uk site, the photos show a drive shaft driving a worm and wheel set in a housing/ oil trough that is free to rotate, which allows the use of just one Hooke's joint.

I have enough bits and pieces to make a decent copy of that, but I haven't been able to find any diagram or picture of the interior parts of of the feed knock-off mechanism. If anyone has a picture or a diagram showing the parts that they could post on this site I should be very grateful.

Regards, Si.

[Simon Lee 2Participant @simonlee2]

[Nigel McBurney 1Participant @nigelmcburney1]

Sorry cannot help but I have worked on one,the company where I served my apprenticeship had one of these Taylor mills,regularly used for instrument making so mainly light milling work,anyone who worked on this machine soon found out it was better to wind the handle and forget the power feed,not a very good arrangement.The other problem with the Taylor was their collets for holding the end mills,very difficult to do up tight,on tougher work the cutter would slip up or down in the collet,not a loved machine but the only alternative was a vertical mill with 4 ft table, thats how it was in the 1950s ,just get on with it.On a small machine power feed is not essential,and one got used to winding handles and using fixed stops,many of the jobs lasted a couple of days.

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