ozzyo

Hello all, so what do you get for 70 odd quid? Boring head and arbor, eight boring tools (that could also be used on the lathe) and a block to keep them in (hole are a bit big about 10mm). Some close ups of the boring head. You get three mounting holes for the tools, two in the bottom and one across the body. To use the one across the body you would have to grind you own tools,as the boring tools are meant to be used in the bottom two holes. A close up of the indexing wheel, I've not worked out what the scale is yet, but I think that 1 rev will be 0.5mm (so 1mm off the bore), so per each index 0.02mm (0.0008") off the bore. In place on the mill. Summery, Good points, well made and finished, good clear indexes (I may fill them with some black latter on), looks like it will have a good range using the three holes, tools look very good and well ground. Down side, arbor could have done with two flats on it to help with tightening the head on, M14X1mm thread was a bit tight (but better than lose), the screw above the index wheel caught on the M14X1mm thread on the arbor, you have to use two Allan keys, one for the slide lock and one for the index, the wooden block could have been a bit better (very minor). Boring head good value, tools sound a bit dear but not really at £3.07 each. All in all a nice bit of kit so 8.5 / 10. OzzyO. PS. please feel free to ask any questions.

Hello Steve, have you checked that the ATC pick up on your Castle and King clear it? OzzyO.

Hello Ray, I'll do that, the 14 X 1mm is the size of the screw on the arbor where it fits in the back of the boring head. The draw bar size is M6 I did check that before ordering it. OzzyO.

Who is a clever Les ( I was going to say Dick) then. Fantastic work Les, but get the heavy grot on first then do the light grot after the windows are in place. OzzyO. PS. I remember Liverpool around the 1970s and a lot of the "nice" buildings were covered in grot, about the only one that was not was Paddy's wigwam. No offence meant to any one.

Hello all, I've just ordered it along with some cutting tools to go with it, about £75.00 I got it through their own web site as it was a bit cheaper. Thanks for the pointer. OzzyO.

Hello all, after milling up the steam pipe casings for Princess Anne I'm finding the limitations of using the fly cutter for doing curved cut-outs for smoke-box's Etc. and could realy do with one of these. I'd have had this one in five minutes if it had been a bit smaller say about 1 1/2" and with a 1MT. arbor. Now for the question does anybody know where I could get one that has a 1MT arbor? TFAH OzzyO.

I did notice that after I'd posted. So maybe I should have said mask all of the windows. What the heck it's going to be one stunning building. OzzyO.

Well that looks a lot (I was going to say a bit) better. Well done that man. OzzyO.

Now all you have to do is put it all together and paint it and then glazes all of the windows. OzzyO.

Hello all, one thing that I've never understood about these B.R. divided coal space tenders is why did B.R. not a) increase the water space by adding a extension to the top of the rear tank top to the division plate? b ) add a cover plate over the part of the coal space that the coal would not work down the normal coal hopper? I have seen a few photos of the closed off part of these types of tender having a good amount of coal behind the division plate that can't be used. Not a few cwt. but a few tons. A nice looking build up to now, OzzyO.

Hello Steve, I've tried to phone Jody to see how you were getting on! Now having coming on line and reading this I'm so sorry for you. all of this just sounds so s4!t for you I'll give you a bell soon. ATB Paul.

hope all goes well with the Opp. and should see you at Telford. OzzyO.

some of us will just like to have a lathe and mill so that we can just do it ourselves. OzzyO.

I would always say get the biggest one that you can A) afford and b) can fit in the workshop. The drain is a good idea and one that I would always say to have. I have only had two U/S cleaners and the second one is the better of the two. OzzyO.

That just looks so so wrong, thank god that did not happen. OzzyO.

It's a bit hard to give any advice on any thing when all you have is a number JPL 8050 or 8060. Could you show a photo of the model Etc. I would always say that it's a good idea to have the drain tap. OzzyO.

A lot would depend on what you wanted to M/C for a lot of 7 / 10mm stuff this mill would have a lot of uses, it could be a bit small for 7" gauge type stuff. To get the best use of the space between the table and spindle nose you may have to use "finger" collets. This is the first time that I have seen a universal mill (or a H mill) in the Axminster catalogue and could be to see how it goes? Maybe a bigger one next year? It does have a lot going for it 300mm longitudinal travel, 92mm cross travel, that should be big enough for most 7mm locos for the important bits. Spindle speed can be a bit of a red hearing, 200 - 2,000 rpm. The low end is a bit on the high side I'd have liked to see about 100 rpm. The top end is OK for most of our type of work. Cutting speed books may tell you to use 20,000 rpm for small milling cutters but when you start to use these types of speed you also have to use the types of cutter that will stand being used at that sort of speed and at the cost of them, when you start to run at these sort of speeds you will need coolant and a lot of it. When I was in heavy engineering I worked a V. mill that had a top speed of approx. 1,600 rpm and it was OK cutting 1mm key-ways to + - 0.025mm. It was also quite happy to take a 3/8" cut off a slab of 8" wide metal at 10" per min. IIRC spindle speed was about 300-400 rpm. With a cutter of about 10" dia. OzzyO.

Hello Simon, you have misspelt bu66er I always spell it bu99er. Nice looking build more so when you remember it's in 2mm. OzzyO.

Hello Dave, a nice looking build, but why did you make all of that work by leaving so many parts off when all of them were painted black? As you are now relying on a glue to paint bond not a glue to metal bond. OzzyO.

Hello all, good post (#643), re the chuck. IIRC this type of chuck is also known as a live chuck, running chuck and a few more names. I have just got my new Axminster catalogue and spotted this universal knee type of mill and thought that you all may like to see it. If I was in the market for a new mill I think that I'd be giving this one a good looking at. OzzyO.

Without going looking for any thing it is one of two types of chuck. A very early type of key-less chuck. My first choice. Or an auto tapping chuck, these tended to look a bit longer than this (or the ones that I have seen did). The front band was for the cutting pressure and depth and would auto spin when the depth of cut was made. Then the lathe had to be reversed to get the tap out. So I'd still go for option one. Please let me know, OzzyO.

Says the second man known as I can't sleep as I've a Deltic and Western going around in my head.

Most of the time if you do that it goes into the floor or hits the lathe bed, if your unlucky hits you in the armpit. The chuck key is one that you tend to see when working the lathe. That one as its at the L/H end and behind the headstock you won't until you leave it in place and then !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OzzyO.

I would have said that the Scot's have more in keeping with the Claughton (although the Claughton's have four cylinders) like the Nelsons, and the Claughtons have the drive to the front axle this would look to be a better place to start, apart from it having been made at Crewe! Out of interest, when was O.S. Nock born and when did he die, one of my books has a forward from him dated 1980. OzzyO.

About what? The Castle or the Nelson? It was also said that Churchward said that one of my locos (Star?) could pull two of his backwards (L.N.W.R.) then the L.N.W.R wanted to borrow the drawings. A lot of these sort of things can be railway tails (stories) that could have some background. One thing that is sometimes forgotten is that most of these C.M.Es. were good friends with one another. So they did share information with each other. OzzyO.