Plans for lathe attachment that lets you "mill" on the lathe

[Brian Rupnow]

Looking for either plans that show how to make this fixture or pictures of finished ones installed on a lathe. My friend that is restoring the old Atlas lathe was interested when I told him about this, and then I couldn't find a picture to show him.---Brian

 

[GreenTwin]

I have the plain Myford milling attachment.
I have not used it, but I assume it can be oriented in several different ways.

Looks like one Myford milling attachment has a swivel option.
I think I would prefer not to have a swivel, but there may be applications where it could be useful.
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[djc]

There is a picture (and part number) of a genuine Atlas one here:

https://www.lathes.co.uk/atlas-lathe-accessories/

Raglan appear to have copied or licensed it:

https://www.lathes.co.uk/raglan/page2.html

Have a sniff around vintagemachinery.org as they have extensive Atlas literature available for download.

http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/51/2116.pdf

Boxford made a nice one for their machines (https://www.lathes.co.uk/boxford/page4.html), so there might be a Southbend version () as the two marques had a lot of similarity.

A good search phrase is 'lathe vertical slide' or 'lathe milling slide' (https://www.metallatheaccessories.com/product-page/milling-attachment-mla-5).

The Myford swivelling one was used a lot with their dividing head. See: (https://www.lathes.co.uk/myford/page3.html)