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Fergus OMore:
The old fashioned way was to add nothing more exotic than  a block of metal which could be peppered with all sorts holes and taps to hold things to be held for milling and drilling.

You might be surprised but I came across 3 of the 'Greats in Model Engineering who used such a thing. One was Martin Cleeve, author of Screwcutting in the Lathe, the Next was George Thomas, author of the Model Engineers Workshop Manual and Workshop Techniques and the Professor Dennis Chaddock author of the Quorn book.

Regards

Norman

DavidA:
quaint,  but it only gave you two axis.

Dave.

Fergus OMore:
Quaint- possibly but think that 'Cleeve' actually added the 3rd dimension with home made blocks. All in early copies of Engineering in Miniature!

Of course, the other method was to use fabricated tool posts mounted direct onto the saddle. Both front and rear ones and take the top slide off and use screwed to the block- as a vertical slide. It's only the ability to think at 90 degrees- or the 4th part of a circle. Oops, me apron is showing!

The other bit of Quaint engineering( your comment) was to mount the work in the tool holder.

Cheers

Norman

I was following old George Thomas- or actually Dr Bill Bennett, BDS( Dunelm) who wrote about Jim Bachelors addition to the Universal Pillar Tool and how Jim had grafted his to his Myford. I have a UPT but grafted a cheap and nasty 30quid effort of a drilling machine ( ex Aldi) onto my Myford. The vice - or vise came in the box.

Canny for £30. My vertical slide- or one of them is on me fabricated Stent T&C!

Quaint- maybe. Works- definitely.

Regards

N

DavidA:
I never said it wouldn't work. And if it's all you have then,  way to go.

But think of all the time you lose adjusting things.

And we are in the twenty first century.

Harold Hall presented a milling attachment for the small lathe. And I was most of the way through making it when I realised just how limited the x,y practical traverse would be.  So I bit the bullet and bought a small mill.
The vertical slide is a sort of half way house. An old friend of mine (now deceased) did all the milling work for his 5" guage Britannia using the slide.

Dave.

But I do still have a nice spindle to thank Harold for.

stirling lad:
yes ian, that is the slide thats made for the mini lathe..

..mike.

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