Steve, it's been a year since i commented here. Since then I've viewed s a shit load of options for milling on a lathe. You have my humble apologies. I must have had a very bad day when I posted that pointless comment. It was pointless because I don't think anyone gives a damn if you call it a midi or a mini. Fact is I've since watched most, if not all of your milling attachment videos and you deserved much better than my lame comment. My lathe is an old 60's vintage South Bend heavy 10 but I think you have covered this topic so thoroughly that I now have enough information to choose my milling attachment along will the myriad of good mounting options to fill most lathe milling operations. Thank YOU! A crass yank! ;-) Wakodahatchee Chris
Your projects and ability to create new tools for the lathe is never a disappointment, always very informative and easy to follow instructions. Thanks for the time put into the videos and work to get them out for everyone to see.
Hello Steve. I have just completed this milling attachment, it works very well and is much cheaper than buying a mill of course. Now I need to reduce the free play in the cross slide/saddle, as the milling operations show it up - will study your video on the upgrade. I have carried out one or two of your lathe improvements. Keep up the good work!
Hi Steve, I know this video is from ages ago but I just thought I'd write to you and let you know that I have finally saved up enough to buy a double swivel vertical milling slide with vice from Chronos for my Chinese mini lathe (they ran out of stock 6 months ago). I'm in the process of fitting the 10mm plate to the cross slide and fitting the mill slide base to it. I can see this opening a whole new window of uses for my lathe, not least the milling of new tool holders from the aluminium blocks that I cut ready some 12 months ago! Thank you, Steve, for providing me with the knowledge and confidence to do this, your videos are an inspiration to us all.
Thank you Sir for your great work. I was fortunate to have a scrap 3in1 machine from which I took this attachment. And only minor modification to the unit and no modification to my lathe at all.
Thank you Mr Jordan for taking the time to make these videos , your ideas are very good and make handy ways to use the machines , very insightful and well thought out
That's a good idea! Another mod to do! Trouble is I need to get on with the real project I had in mind rather than spending all my time just improving the tooling ; -) At least now I have half decent milling capability.
Hi Steve, thanks for this vid. I've completed the same today, just a couple of modifications... My Mini lathe came with M6 tapped holes at the back of the cross slide for a travelling steady, so I used those to mount the palette. Also I aligned the bolts attaching the palette to the cross slide swivel disk at 90 degrees from how you did it, so the four mounting bolts are in a rectangular formation. It really does seem to be a rigid setup. Just made my first passes with an 8 mm end mill and the finish looks good with virtually no chatter. On to do your additonal gib locking screws next!
Hi Andy, Thanks. It sounds like you made a great job of that. It is surprising how rigid it is. I have been using mine today and it works great. I have one last upgrade to do to the pallet. I'm going to drill a hole directly above the carriage lock allen bolt for a 'T' allen key to lock. Regards Steve
I followed your instructions Steve thanks, and just finished. All is good and accurate. Found a 9.5mm drill did the job as I don't have a 3/8", and used the 6mm holes as guides; a perfect fit on the Chronos milling vice. Also took your advice of fitting 2 more gib screws to the cross slide. The 10mm steel took some polishing, no-one seems to sell anything as good as yours! I may turn a couple of custom 8mm studs.
Thank you soo much for shareing this with us, most informative I too have a chingleesh lathe and fist mod will be additional gib screws then the mill slide
Hi another great idea checked the price will have to save the pennies up.Fitted extra adjustment screws to the cross slide some time back I found it helped to keep the gib. in adjustment over the range of the slide
Steve, thanks for another great video! I just finished mounting the Myford Double Swivel Vertical Milling Slide onto my mini-lathe. The dimensions of the slide was different so I had to recalculate the distance of the VMS relative to the cross slide. Did you use a foot of a table or something to ensure the chuck/milling bit and vise are aligned?
Greetings from Canada. Enjoyable and informative. May I ask if this (milling) setup has 'superseded' your previous approach with the angle plate? Or, in other words, do you use one more than the other? Thank you.
Hi Steve I have been hearing criticism of the swivel vertical slide online and was wondering what your thoughts on it would be, some people are saying that the static one is better, what do you think? Thanks Paul 🤔🤔🤔
Hi Steve, I've been following your tutorials for a while now and I'm just finishing the task of mounting a dual swivel vertical milling slide onto my Colchester Chipmaster cross-slide. Excellent upgrade. Can you tell me which machine vice you used in this setup and where you sourced it please? To mount the vice, it looks like you drilled through the vice body and used a couple of cap-head bolts with T-nuts underneath, correct? Thanks, Martin Archer
Hi I think it's 75mm round vice bought from Chronos.uk. they usually sell two different sized ones and this one is the largest one I think. I haven't looked on their site lately though. Regards Steve
Hi Steve. Many thanks for all the videos, they are inspirational. You mentioned on this video that you purchased the plate on eBay. Can you remember the seller please. Thanks Noel
Hi Noel, Thanks. Yes I bought it from this Seller listing. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10mm-thick-MILD-STEEL-plate-sheet-profile-custom-cutting-available-FREE-POSTAGE/281858909687?hash=item41a019a5f7:m:mby2f3MonsP6prQYYjwc3Pg&var=580836916841 Regards Steve
Hi Steve, what is the Thread pitch on the 8mm studs, please.?? I have also just bought one of these slides and would like to get my holes done before it arrives.
Hi Steve, nice tutorial, do you have the exact dimension of footprint, means 3/8 dowel pins axis and M8 studs axis, and footprint flange roughly dimension ? i have to laser cut the steel plate and i would like to make drawing. Thanks in advance
Hi Thanks. Sorry but I do not have any drawing dimensions as I just machined the parts to fit at the time that I made it. I never make any drawings. Regards Steve
How much deflection are you getting with all the extra moving parts? Or is it negligible on that tiny lathe. I was thinking about adding on to my 13” lathe and using it to drive a CNC 3kw spindle.
Its the copy of the Myford milling slide. You could hold whatever fits on the face, but the Chinese Mini Lathe is very restricted in cross slide travel so obviously it has limitations.....its too much to for me to calculate and give specific measurements. You would have to see the lathe travel limitation and check out slide dimensions and movement specification, to see if it will be suitable for your needs.
Is myford milling slide made in India now ? I mean does myford in England still exist? I just got one of those India myford slides. Made by bluefox. And it's not too well machined. I'm disappointed in the India manufacturing of this. The tee slots are way off canted misalignment , if fact there is not a properly machined surface except the table. Can you still buy the good old myford slide from England? I just checked and yes it is still made in the UK. If I had to do over I would have got the high quality UK one. I just recently became aware that myford England shut there factory down sometime around 2011. However, Chronos sells the slde and must have a supplier. The one I got on Ebay by bluefox from India is poorly manufactured.
PUT !!!! EVERYTHING !! MYFORD !! AND !! CIRCUS !! HURCUS !!! INTO !!! THE !! METAL !!! SHREADDER !!!! RIGHT !!! THIS !!! INSTANT !!!! DON'T !!! WASTE !!!! ANY !!! TIME !!! DOING !!! IT !!!! EITHER !!! TO !! SAVE !!! YOUR !!! SOUL !!!!
Randell Jones Randell I live in the eastern USA and have ordered several things from Bang Good .com I have always been pleased with there products so far. It usually takes me anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Most of the things I have ordered has been for a lathe. Good luck hope this helps.
Hi Randell, Chronos do ship worldwide but obviously the shipping costs would be high for these heavy items. I'm surprised that someone in the USA hasn't got these items for sale? If someone in the USA were to import these tools to sell them for reasonable prices like Chronos, they would have an excellent business. Most of these tool are now made in India and China and imported. Regards Steve
Paul S 1 second ago lately I've been seeing more advanced vises and attachments for lathes and mills coming out of India. I'm tempted to get one, but know at those prices there has to be some cost reduction and quality issues. Probably good for mini-lathes as the need for .0001 accuracy is seldom on them. Thank you for showing us how to do! This gets me thinking about how to vertically mount a rotary table and/or XY table on my G8688
Thanks Steve for your very informative and easy to follow directions @@pauls5745 I have just received the vertical slide direct from India purchased on eBay. While i haven't had the opportunity to use it yet seems to be reasonable quality & very good value. Postage was very fast.
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Steve, it's been a year since i commented here. Since then I've viewed s a shit load of options for milling on a lathe. You have my humble apologies. I must have had a very bad day when I posted that pointless comment. It was pointless because I don't think anyone gives a damn if you call it a midi or a mini. Fact is I've since watched most, if not all of your milling attachment videos and you deserved much better than my lame comment. My lathe is an old 60's vintage South Bend heavy 10 but I think you have covered this topic so thoroughly that I now have enough information to choose my milling attachment along will the myriad of good mounting options to fill most lathe milling operations. Thank YOU! A crass yank! ;-)
Wakodahatchee Chris
Your projects and ability to create new tools for the lathe is never a disappointment, always very informative and easy to follow instructions. Thanks for the time put into the videos and work to get them out for everyone to see.
Hello Steve. I have just completed this milling attachment, it works very well and is much cheaper than buying a mill of course. Now I need to reduce the free play in the cross slide/saddle, as the milling operations show it up - will study your video on the upgrade.
I have carried out one or two of your lathe improvements.
Keep up the good work!
Hi Steve, I know this video is from ages ago but I just thought I'd write to you and let you know that I have finally saved up enough to buy a double swivel vertical milling slide with vice from Chronos for my Chinese mini lathe (they ran out of stock 6 months ago). I'm in the process of fitting the 10mm plate to the cross slide and fitting the mill slide base to it.
I can see this opening a whole new window of uses for my lathe, not least the milling of new tool holders from the aluminium blocks that I cut ready some 12 months ago!
Thank you, Steve, for providing me with the knowledge and confidence to do this, your videos are an inspiration to us all.
Thank you Sir for your great work.
I was fortunate to have a scrap 3in1 machine from which I took this attachment. And only minor modification to the unit and no modification to my lathe at all.
Thank you Mr Jordan for taking the time to make these videos , your ideas are very good and make handy ways to use the machines , very insightful and well thought out
That's a good idea! Another mod to do! Trouble is I need to get on with the real project I had in mind rather than spending all my time just improving the tooling ; -) At least now I have half decent milling capability.
Thanks Steve, Not having a mill (YET) this information is very useful. Keep it up.
Hi Steve, thanks for this vid. I've completed the same today, just a couple of modifications... My Mini lathe came with M6 tapped holes at the back of the cross slide for a travelling steady, so I used those to mount the palette. Also I aligned the bolts attaching the palette to the cross slide swivel disk at 90 degrees from how you did it, so the four mounting bolts are in a rectangular formation. It really does seem to be a rigid setup. Just made my first passes with an 8 mm end mill and the finish looks good with virtually no chatter. On to do your additonal gib locking screws next!
Hi Andy, Thanks. It sounds like you made a great job of that. It is surprising how rigid it is. I have been using mine today and it works great. I have one last upgrade to do to the pallet. I'm going to drill a hole directly above the carriage lock allen bolt for a 'T' allen key to lock. Regards Steve
Brilliant Steve, so clearly explained, thank you.
Steve, you never cease to amaze me....nice.cool video.thanks
I followed your instructions Steve thanks, and just finished. All is good and accurate. Found a 9.5mm drill did the job as I don't have a 3/8", and used the 6mm holes as guides; a perfect fit on the Chronos milling vice. Also took your advice of fitting 2 more gib screws to the cross slide. The 10mm steel took some polishing, no-one seems to sell anything as good as yours! I may turn a couple of custom 8mm studs.
Thanks again Steve, I love your videos!
Plain english and Informative as always. Many thanks. ☺
Thank you soo much for shareing this with us, most informative I too have a chingleesh lathe and fist mod will be additional gib screws then the mill slide
Excellent very clever & looks very sturdy,I enjoy watching all of your videos.
Hi another great idea checked the price will have to save the pennies up.Fitted extra adjustment screws to the cross slide some time back I found it helped to keep the gib. in adjustment over the range of the slide
Thank you. That is very interesting and I hope to act in these directions.
I like the fact that the slide can swivel around 2 axes!
You did it again Sir Jordan.
very nice setup. If you have a diamond cup wheel, it would make bit sharpening very precise.
Amazing!!what kind of turret you use for this project?thank you!
Steve, thanks for another great video! I just finished mounting the Myford Double Swivel Vertical Milling Slide onto my mini-lathe. The dimensions of the slide was different so I had to recalculate the distance of the VMS relative to the cross slide. Did you use a foot of a table or something to ensure the chuck/milling bit and vise are aligned?
Hi Wilson. I square the vice up on the front of the jaws, touching the face of the vice before tightening it down fully.
Excellent! Thank you. :)
Great Video, graduations at the bottom might be a nice finishing touch?
Greetings from Canada. Enjoyable and informative. May I ask if this (milling) setup has 'superseded' your previous approach with the angle plate? Or, in other words, do you use one more than the other? Thank you.
Hi Thanks. I use all the different set-ups, but I use the 90deg angle plate the most. Regards Steve.
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Hi Steve I have been hearing criticism of the swivel vertical slide online and was wondering what your thoughts on it would be, some people are saying that the static one is better, what do you think? Thanks Paul 🤔🤔🤔
Hi Steve, I've been following your tutorials for a while now and I'm just finishing the task of mounting a dual swivel vertical milling slide onto my Colchester Chipmaster cross-slide. Excellent upgrade. Can you tell me which machine vice you used in this setup and where you sourced it please? To mount the vice, it looks like you drilled through the vice body and used a couple of cap-head bolts with T-nuts underneath, correct? Thanks, Martin Archer
Hi I think it's 75mm round vice bought from Chronos.uk. they usually sell two different sized ones and this one is the largest one I think. I haven't looked on their site lately though. Regards Steve
Hi Steve. Many thanks for all the videos, they are inspirational. You mentioned on this video that you purchased the plate on eBay. Can you remember the seller please. Thanks Noel
Hi Noel, Thanks. Yes I bought it from this Seller listing.
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10mm-thick-MILD-STEEL-plate-sheet-profile-custom-cutting-available-FREE-POSTAGE/281858909687?hash=item41a019a5f7:m:mby2f3MonsP6prQYYjwc3Pg&var=580836916841
Regards
Steve
Hi Steve, what is the Thread pitch on the 8mm studs, please.?? I have also just bought one of these slides and would like to get my holes done before it arrives.
It's M8 x 1.25
Hi Steve, nice tutorial, do you have the exact dimension of footprint, means 3/8 dowel pins axis and M8 studs axis, and footprint flange roughly dimension ? i have to laser cut the steel plate and i would like to make drawing. Thanks in advance
Hi Thanks. Sorry but I do not have any drawing dimensions as I just machined the parts to fit at the time that I made it. I never make any drawings. Regards Steve
How much deflection are you getting with all the extra moving parts? Or is it negligible on that tiny lathe. I was thinking about adding on to my 13” lathe and using it to drive a CNC 3kw spindle.
Hi I don't notice any deflection. As long as the gib is adjusted correctly. It would be fine for something like that.
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what size slide is that I want to get the correct one?
How big of metal meterial could be milled on that slide in your mini lathe?
Its the copy of the Myford milling slide. You could hold whatever fits on the face, but the Chinese Mini Lathe is very restricted in cross slide travel so obviously it has limitations.....its too much to for me to calculate and give specific measurements. You would have to see the lathe travel limitation and check out slide dimensions and movement specification, to see if it will be suitable for your needs.
Is myford milling slide made in India now ? I mean does myford in England still exist? I just got one of those India myford slides. Made by bluefox. And it's not too well machined. I'm disappointed in the India manufacturing of this. The tee slots are way off canted misalignment , if fact there is not a properly machined surface except the table. Can you still buy the good old myford slide from England? I just checked and yes it is still made in the UK. If I had to do over I would have got the high quality UK one. I just recently became aware that myford England shut there factory down sometime around 2011. However, Chronos sells the slde and must have a supplier. The one I got on Ebay by bluefox from India is poorly manufactured.
PUT !!!! EVERYTHING !! MYFORD !! AND !! CIRCUS !! HURCUS !!! INTO !!! THE !! METAL !!! SHREADDER !!!! RIGHT !!! THIS !!! INSTANT !!!! DON'T !!! WASTE !!!! ANY !!! TIME !!! DOING !!! IT !!!! EITHER !!! TO !! SAVE !!! YOUR !!! SOUL !!!!
Steve follow your channel religiously. How can we get this stuff you get from chromosome, banggood ebay etc in the USA?? I live in the midwest
Randell Jones Randell I live in the eastern USA and have ordered several things from Bang Good .com I have always been pleased with there products so far. It usually takes me anywhere from 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Most of the things I have ordered has been for a lathe. Good luck hope this helps.
Hi Randell, Chronos do ship worldwide but obviously the shipping costs would be high for these heavy items. I'm surprised that someone in the USA hasn't got these items for sale? If someone in the USA were to import these tools to sell them for reasonable prices like Chronos, they would have an excellent business. Most of these tool are now made in India and China and imported. Regards Steve
Paul S
1 second ago
lately I've been seeing more advanced vises and attachments for lathes and mills coming out of India. I'm tempted to get one, but know at those prices there has to be some cost reduction and quality issues. Probably good for mini-lathes as the need for .0001 accuracy is seldom on them.
Thank you for showing us how to do! This gets me thinking about how to vertically mount a rotary table and/or XY table on my G8688
Thanks Steve for your very informative and easy to follow directions
@@pauls5745 I have just received the vertical slide direct from India purchased on eBay. While i haven't had the opportunity to use it yet seems to be reasonable quality & very good value. Postage was very fast.
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The title is a misnomer. Your lathe is a Midi not a Mini.
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That is wrongly designed.