Hi Nigel, A nice series... good to see your various machines in action... and your videos are three times better than the 60 second Sunday videos. Take care. Paul,,
hi nigel Lovely machine, and great video, an unclean machine means that some serious work is being done, as long as their given a treat now and again. There's some resemblance of 3 vices taking shape now. Cheers Kev
Hi Nigel, nice Elliott mill ideal size for the hobby shop. Been watching the collaborators videos and this projects coming together nicely. Regards Kevin
Gday Nigel, very nice milling machine and a handy size, I don’t clean my machines as much as I should but there getting used, looks like your making good progress on the vices, take care, cheers
By the way, is that an Abwood vice? I'm thinking of getting something larger for my mill as I currently have a 3" Abwood - but it looks like the larger ones are hlariously expensive compared to standard chinese mill vices :(
Hi William, no that's a cheap import. I have a 6" Abwood that I'm thinking of selling because it's so heavy to handle, I think it would crush your Centec. The larger Abwood vices do seem to go for high prices, I guess that's supply and demand in action.
@@GoCreatehms thank you - from your perspective are all those chinese mill vices the same (broadly)? Arc are selling one for £90 and it looks like the same one on eBay for about £40!
@@williamsworkshopuk I think you take your chance with ebay, looking the same may not be the same. It's possible that some of the cheap buys on ebay etc are rejects that wouldn't be suitable for the more reputable suppliers, I'm sure some manufacturers just sell off rejects. Personally, for the work you do I would consider at a tool makers vice, the type with the slots along the side, (not the holes along the side which are more difficult to clamp down). For my model making where precision holing is needed or when I'm dong small parts I often use my tool makers vice, it holds small parts much more precisely . Mine is a 90mm wide jaw from Arc. www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Workholding/Machine-Vices/Precision-Tool-Vices-Type-2 I admire your desire to keep to older style tools, these tool makers vices though are the same design that have been used for decades. I hope that helps.
I have a very small, collet type, no overarm, Hardinge horizontal mill. After spoiling work, I pretty much let it sit. Have you found conventional vs. what's called in the states climb milling to be important? I'm wondering if that's my problem.
Hi Ron. I often use my horizontal mill using cutters in a collet chuck. Care should be taken to avoid climb milling as the cutter can pull in the work by the amount of backlash in the lead screw nut. Some industrial horizontal milling machines have a built in backlash eliminator which eliminates any backlash in the lead screw nut, this allows conventional and climb milling. I hope that helps, thanks for watching my video.
@@GoCreatehms Very much. It's funny, I used to be a rotary wing pilot, never had any problems with where I was vs. the ground. But conventional vs. climb milling on that little horizontal can drive me nuts. Time to put a darn picture on it LOL.
Very interesting! I had always seen this machining application used for things like key ways and gear cutting. It worked really well and the radius it left at the edges is also very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Well done sir! BTW, I personally feel that people who keep their machinery and shops obsessively clean have a mental disorder. I have one too but it's at the opposite end of the spectrum.... ;)
Three minutes of therapeutic joy 👏👏👍😀
Hi Nigel,
A nice series... good to see your various machines in action... and your videos are three times better than the 60 second Sunday videos.
Take care.
Paul,,
I admire your mill and your helping out with this vise project.
G’day Nigel. Nice to see some horizontal milling machine work going on, thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Peter
Thanks for the therapy. Much needed.
Great job Nigel, nice sturdy machine. Great to see the project moving on closer to completion. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Jon
hi nigel
Lovely machine, and great video, an unclean machine means that some serious work is being done, as long as their given a treat now and again. There's some resemblance of 3 vices taking shape now.
Cheers
Kev
Hi Nigel, nice Elliott mill ideal size for the hobby shop. Been watching the collaborators videos and this projects coming together nicely. Regards Kevin
Gday Nigel, very nice milling machine and a handy size, I don’t clean my machines as much as I should but there getting used, looks like your making good progress on the vices, take care, cheers
Love a bit of cheeky horizonal milling :)
By the way, is that an Abwood vice? I'm thinking of getting something larger for my mill as I currently have a 3" Abwood - but it looks like the larger ones are hlariously expensive compared to standard chinese mill vices :(
Hi William, no that's a cheap import. I have a 6" Abwood that I'm thinking of selling because it's so heavy to handle, I think it would crush your Centec. The larger Abwood vices do seem to go for high prices, I guess that's supply and demand in action.
@@GoCreatehms thank you - from your perspective are all those chinese mill vices the same (broadly)? Arc are selling one for £90 and it looks like the same one on eBay for about £40!
@@williamsworkshopuk I think you take your chance with ebay, looking the same may not be the same. It's possible that some of the cheap buys on ebay etc are rejects that wouldn't be suitable for the more reputable suppliers, I'm sure some manufacturers just sell off rejects. Personally, for the work you do I would consider at a tool makers vice, the type with the slots along the side, (not the holes along the side which are more difficult to clamp down). For my model making where precision holing is needed or when I'm dong small parts I often use my tool makers vice, it holds small parts much more precisely . Mine is a 90mm wide jaw from Arc.
www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Workholding/Machine-Vices/Precision-Tool-Vices-Type-2
I admire your desire to keep to older style tools, these tool makers vices though are the same design that have been used for decades.
I hope that helps.
I have a very small, collet type, no overarm, Hardinge horizontal mill. After spoiling work, I pretty much let it sit. Have you found conventional vs. what's called in the states climb milling to be important? I'm wondering if that's my problem.
Hi Ron. I often use my horizontal mill using cutters in a collet chuck. Care should be taken to avoid climb milling as the cutter can pull in the work by the amount of backlash in the lead screw nut. Some industrial horizontal milling machines have a built in backlash eliminator which eliminates any backlash in the lead screw nut, this allows conventional and climb milling.
I hope that helps, thanks for watching my video.
@@GoCreatehms Very much. It's funny, I used to be a rotary wing pilot, never had any problems with where I was vs. the ground. But conventional vs. climb milling on that little horizontal can drive me nuts. Time to put a darn picture on it LOL.
Very interesting!
I had always seen this machining application used for things like key ways and gear cutting.
It worked really well and the radius it left at the edges is also very aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Well done sir!
BTW, I personally feel that people who keep their machinery and shops obsessively clean have a mental disorder.
I have one too but it's at the opposite end of the spectrum....
;)