Turning on a mill

[TuxMan]

Most of us know that a lathe can be used to perform milling operations.

Today I had an occasion where is made sense to use my mill as a lathe.

Some time ago I had made a boring head for my old mill. The old mill had a MT3 spindle taper so I made the boring head to fit.

My new mill has an R8 spindle and I needed to convert the boring head. I purchased an R8 to JT3 arbor for this conversion.

This is what I started with.

I needed to turn down the JT3 part of the arbor to fit the straight bore in the top of the head. I mounted the arbor in the mill spindle and clamped a lathe tool in the milling vise like this

After turning to the required diameter I reset the lathe tool and faced the arbor to length

I then removed the arbor from the spindle and milled a small flat for the set screw. The result is the boring head converted to R8.

Eric

 

[larry1]

Eric, nice work,good looking boring head, thanks for the pictures. Larry1

 

[arnoldb]

Good going Eric :bow:

This proves the old adage - "Where there's a will, there's a way"

Regards, Arnold

 

[T70MkIII]

And, "Where there's a mill, there's a way"

Nice lateral thinking, Eric.