PMac
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Hi all
I'm slowly setting up a small workshop at home I already have a 280X760mm Chinese lathe and I've done light milling using a mill slide fitted to the cross slide that works fine but it's not ideal anyway I've kinda brought a horizontal milling machine in disassembled form my guess is it's about 18-1900s it looks similar to one Dave Gingery based his mill on. the name cast into the side is( O G Garrious Machine Co Bristol Conn No 2 Bristol Miller) hopefully someone may have heard of them. When I eventually get it home (it weighs a bit) I was going to repaint it and i might have to make a spindle that accepts mt2 it does have some original wheel cutter tooling and it's still got flat belt drive the guy that I brought it off showed me a lithograph in an old book showing it assembled and it looks to be a very early profile mill as a rigid profile was bolted to the bed and a worker wound the bed and lifted and lowered the spindle. Ill post pics when I get some
Thanks
Paul Mac
I'm slowly setting up a small workshop at home I already have a 280X760mm Chinese lathe and I've done light milling using a mill slide fitted to the cross slide that works fine but it's not ideal anyway I've kinda brought a horizontal milling machine in disassembled form my guess is it's about 18-1900s it looks similar to one Dave Gingery based his mill on. the name cast into the side is( O G Garrious Machine Co Bristol Conn No 2 Bristol Miller) hopefully someone may have heard of them. When I eventually get it home (it weighs a bit) I was going to repaint it and i might have to make a spindle that accepts mt2 it does have some original wheel cutter tooling and it's still got flat belt drive the guy that I brought it off showed me a lithograph in an old book showing it assembled and it looks to be a very early profile mill as a rigid profile was bolted to the bed and a worker wound the bed and lifted and lowered the spindle. Ill post pics when I get some
Thanks
Paul Mac