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Anyone gorra small milling machine they no longer use? Needs to be small enough to fit on something like a kitchen worktop in my small home workshop.

Needs to be able to hold and mill a 60 diameter Delrin bar in vice jaws at least 30mm deep.

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dunno where you get you're drive from dave, but me and everyone i speak to you respects you for it mate






















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a few here

http://www.gumtree.com/for-sale/uk/milling+machine

Adam, I thunk up a windage adjustable, easily shimmed for elevation CCTV rifle rig - and piss taking is always good mate.

I guess some people will still think bits of plastic should be cheap as chips regardless of how much work is done to convert it into something specific for a low volume niche market. But the item will have to have something towards the machinery acquisition costs again.

Morgy - nothing suitable there for my bench but thanks for the input, you found more that I did there.

What about this Dave nice and handy http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue ... r-X1L-Mill

blueeyes wrote:What about this Dave nice and handy http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue ... r-X1L-Mill

Well bugger me sideways.

I was over there with a mock up of the job I want to mill and they showed me a newer version of that with a variable speed brushless motor etc - would cost over £800 with the vice, collets and cutters.

I shall be there again tomorrow morning to compare them (only 4 miles away) as it looks up the little job I have in mind. I appreciate plastic gears won't last for ever but it wont get a lot of heavy use.

sunndog wrote:another project

dunno where you get you're drive from dave, but me and everyone i speak to you respects you for it mate






















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Phew !!! (where's the "wipes brow" smiley) For a minute I thought you'd gone all sensitive there Adam

Dave, we've got about two tons of miller here if you want to use it mate, save buying one and we're not a million miles from you. We don't have much tooling but there's a place just down the road that stocks second hand tooling quite cheap.

It's here if you need it

Chester machine tools got a sale on this week, miilsfrom £585 plus, free delivery,as new.....

Cheers Rod, I'm only after a light weight compact jobby for my 12 foot timber workshop at the side of the house.
I think a two ton one would crush the floorboards.

Cheers pops.