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RobWilson:
It sure is the Musee des Arts et Metiers Anzaniste :thumbup: ,,,,,,,,,,, a cracking place to visit , joint third on my top five of industrial /technology museum's .
--- Quote from: Arbalist on June 04, 2015, 10:30:17 AM --- I wonder when the milling machine was invented?
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Good question and hard to say , it looks like it was invented around the early to mid 1700s by a French man working in the clock making industry . Rees's Manufacturing industry 1819 -20 makes no mention of the milling machine(rotary filing machine) ,and there is also no mention of the milling machine in my 1833 copy of Manufactures in Metal , so it looks like it was still in it infancy as a machine tool at that time as lathes ,boring and other machinery are well documented .Although the milling machine was being developed by several engineers on two continents at around the same time .
The first milling machine manufactured for sale was produced in the USA , designed by a Mr Frederick Webster Howe in 1848 for the Robbins and Lawrence Company ,Windsor,Vermont .
Joe if you reading this it is probably down to Mr Frederick Webster Howe that you have weird threads on your rifle parts :palm: (still looking ) :coffee:
Rob
vtsteam:
Windsor, Vermont is close by here. It's where the Precision Museum is. A very small town, It looks like that mill had travel in only one direction. So I guess you had to reset the work on the carriage to cut a wider cut than the milling cutter. :coffee:
RobWilson:
Hi Steve
It looks like there is some side to side adjustment looking at the long gear on the feed shaft .The back gearing would need resting after a Z adjustment.
Aye I new it was close to you :thumbup: its been interesting looking into the history of the mill .
Still looking at files :)
Rob
vtsteam:
Rob, I was wondering about that gear -- but couldn't see any ways for the carriage to slide on. But maybe it had a short set that are hidden by the slide.
Funny I just never expect to see anything about Vermont in engineering history, because that's all mostly gone now, and it seems a very rural state. Not like Connecticut or Massachusetts. I have to send away for everything. So it's a big surprise to see it even mentioned at all like that. Fun though!!
I found a little hobbyist lathe mentioned on Tony's lathe site that was also built nearbyin Wilmington,apparently: the Guilder:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/guilder/
It's kind of a cool little does-it-all mchine and accessories. Apparently originating in a little town very nearby. I had no idea Wilmington did anything except serve as a destination for skiers.
vtsteam:
The files arrived. Thought you all might enjoy seing the packaging job it took to send two 14" files a small tube of bue for scraping, a small bottle of loctite, and some JBWeld, all located in the bottom of the picture!
Three boxes, four sets of expanded foam in bags, 5 foot long string of air filled pouches, bubble wrap, and more! The tube of Dykem blue arrived in its own box with 2 foam packs, It's about the size of your thumb.
The files? They stuck the two of them loose in one plastic bag, so they could rattle around against eachother the whole trip! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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