Hello everyone,
I've been looking for a dividing head for my Benchmaster mill for quite some time now and hoping to get one of American manufacture that was sized appropriately for this mill (not a lot of Z axis room, so limited to the smaller sizes).
eBay has plenty of items but most are too big, too expensive or just resales of Chinese cast iron, not what I wanted. After about a year of watching I was able to pick one up off eBay last night and it has the right 'everything' as to what I was looking for - 3 1/4" from table to center, tiltable head, four discs, and definitely looks like older 'American Iron'!
According to the seller, he has little knowledge about this piece. What I was hoping is the collective knowledge here would give me some information as to the manufacturer and anything else you can tell me about it.
Below are some photos from the listing -
Best,
Mike
I've been looking for a dividing head for my Benchmaster mill for quite some time now and hoping to get one of American manufacture that was sized appropriately for this mill (not a lot of Z axis room, so limited to the smaller sizes).
eBay has plenty of items but most are too big, too expensive or just resales of Chinese cast iron, not what I wanted. After about a year of watching I was able to pick one up off eBay last night and it has the right 'everything' as to what I was looking for - 3 1/4" from table to center, tiltable head, four discs, and definitely looks like older 'American Iron'!
According to the seller, he has little knowledge about this piece. What I was hoping is the collective knowledge here would give me some information as to the manufacturer and anything else you can tell me about it.
Below are some photos from the listing -
Best,
Mike