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platypus20:
In my intro thread, I mentioned the stuff I do is pretty mundane, some of the projects I've seen here are amazing, while mine are not in that caliber, I going post a few.

1+2) The first is the 1950 era Bridgeport milling machine, that I bought and then found out it had a bad M head assembly. After pricing a replacement, I decided to adapt a 1986 Central Machinery mill/drill head, it has 12 speeds and a R8 spindle. Originally this was a temporary modification, but it has worked so well, at this point until this head assembly fails, it going to stay. The machine is run almost daily and works great. Another benefit, because of the way it is built, the maximum distance between the table and the quill is 36".

3) The Jet JVM 836 milling machine I bought has been great, but was somewhat limited by the 5 spindle speeds that came from the factory (240-1550 rpm), so I made a "transmission" that by increases the number of speeds to 25 (48-1500 rpm), it didn't increase the max spindle speed, but dramatically lower the minimum speed and made the steps between speeds much smaller.


Jack

platypus20:
I also made a drill press adapter plate, that allow me to lock down the drill press vise anywhere on the DP table, with 4 bolts holding the plate to the table and another 4 bolts to hold the vise to the plate.

jack

Trion:
That looks like a very nice workshop. Man, you have to be tall to be able to reach the highest shelves of you tool cabinet! :lol:

The extra "gears" on the bridgeport looks like a very good addition! I like the layout of what seems to be a central lubrication system, what is it made up of?

platypus20:
When I bought the mill, it was fully manual, no power feeds and all lube points were individual, I installed all of the power feeds and installed a one shot lubrication system, the pump was about $60 and the tubing and fittings were an additional $30, I made all of the lube orifices out of aluminum set screws.


jack

ronginger:
very nice job with the lube system. I have wanted to do that to my mill, but afraid of the rats nest of tubes. Yours looks very good. What material are the tubes?

It looks like the flex loops are just plastic in a loop- that looks neats, has it worked well?

ron ginger

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