07-28-2012, 01:38 PM
Hello Guys,
If you look in the "Lets see your mill" thread Post 51 has a few photos of my current mill, it is a Yugoslavian Horizontal/Vertical Mill nameplated as a "Gate 05 turret mill",
I no longer have any "Frankenmills" but have had three,
I have an old Denbigh that looks a lot like this one;
and I was going to convert it to Horizontal/Vertical when the Gate turned up, I still have it, as it has a really good simple slotting head, but I have now decided to adapt the slotting head to fit the Gate and sell the Denbigh, if I get a little cash for the Denbigh I'll be happy enough to see it go, but would be devastated to see it go to scrap. so won't be throwing it away any time soon.
Sorry, I haven't got any photos of how the tooling is setup on my Gate at the moment but I will take some next time I'm at the shop, it really is pretty simple though, just a rotary table set up like a dividing head facing a vise at the other end.
Best Regards
Rick
If you look in the "Lets see your mill" thread Post 51 has a few photos of my current mill, it is a Yugoslavian Horizontal/Vertical Mill nameplated as a "Gate 05 turret mill",
I no longer have any "Frankenmills" but have had three,
I have an old Denbigh that looks a lot like this one;
and I was going to convert it to Horizontal/Vertical when the Gate turned up, I still have it, as it has a really good simple slotting head, but I have now decided to adapt the slotting head to fit the Gate and sell the Denbigh, if I get a little cash for the Denbigh I'll be happy enough to see it go, but would be devastated to see it go to scrap. so won't be throwing it away any time soon.
Sorry, I haven't got any photos of how the tooling is setup on my Gate at the moment but I will take some next time I'm at the shop, it really is pretty simple though, just a rotary table set up like a dividing head facing a vise at the other end.
Best Regards
Rick
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