<div dir="ltr"><div>Here's a good thread discussing a homemade backlash adjustment mechanism. Also some pictures and discussion of tramming. Also new X and Y drive nuts are $175.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/index-model-40-drill-chuck-182725/">http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/index-model-40-drill-chuck-182725/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-Jacob Chancery<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Erik Arendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">earendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was unsure if you could tram the head. If I would have looked at the pictures, that would have answered my questions. a DTI and a stem is all you need. I think you can get them at HF. It will also help to have a 123 block for tramming in the head. <br>
<br></div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Stephan Henning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shenning@gmail.com" target="_blank">shenning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Should be pretty easy to make a tramming bar with some stock and two HF dial indicators. They aren't the best things in the world, but reasonably cheap if you can't find anything used at a decent price. <br>
<br></div>I would assume it has adjustments for it. I think one of those links from earlier in the thread may have had a manual for the machine. <br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Erik Arendall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:earendall@gmail.com" target="_blank">earendall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Can you even tram that mill? </p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 26, 2014 7:17 PM, "Matt Barron" <<a href="mailto:mbarronj@gmail.com" target="_blank">mbarronj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div>Does anyone have any old indicators or a tramming bar for that mill? I may throw in on some metrology gear for it (pawn shop or craigslist, though). That would make it quite useful.<br><br>Matt</div>
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<br>On Feb 26, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Jacob Chancery <<a href="mailto:jacob.chancery@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.chancery@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Here's some more info on the milling machine.</div>
<a href="http://www.lathes.co.uk/blankbuxton/" target="_blank">http://www.lathes.co.uk/blankbuxton/</a><div>Looks like it never had a cover on the drive belt and pulleys. Pre-OSHA.<br>
<div><br></div><div>I'm ordering an 11 piece set of #9 B&S collets for it. 1/8" through 3/4" by sixteenths.</div></div><div><br></div><div>-Chancery</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Jacob Chancery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob.chancery@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacob.chancery@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">It's an Index Model 40.<div>h<a>ttp://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-history/index-model-40-40h-pics-239816/</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>It appears to have a #9 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_taper#Brown_.26_Sharpe" target="_blank">Brown & Sharpe</a> taper.</div><div><br></div><div>I think these were made in the 1940's. <a href="http://www.wells-index.com/" target="_blank">Wells-Index</a> is still in business.</div>
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