Gav's 101.

Nice...[bigrolf]

Had the mill making its first chips tonight. Bored out a couple of new brake backing plates to fit a Crump and Cornish trailer along with new mounting holes. Came out great, first time I'd use a coaxial indicator and an adjustable boring head. [emoji106]. Have taken some video of it all so might edit that one cold night next week and post it.

New one looks kinda like the old one. [emoji106]

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The mill that is coming is a cheaper Chinese mill, but will keep me out of trouble for a bit. Interestingly, the lathe I bought is Chinese too - but built in the 1970’s So a very different proposition to what comes from there today and it’s considered to be a decent quality machine.

These are still being made as the B and C series to this day which are virtually identical in all functionality and specs. - China Ca Series of Lathe Machine (Lathe CA6240 CA6250 CA6266 CA6280) - China Lathe, Lathe Machine

Doubtful they would have built basically the same lathe for over 40 years if it wasn’t half decent.

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That's a decent sized lathe Gav....no need to even remove the gap to swing a Land Rover flywheel.
What spindle dia. does yours have? I see there is 52, 80, and 105 mm.

Cheers, Mick.

52mm on this one. More than big enough for what I need. 👍

Gav - 101 mate - think 101 not lathe and mill - 101, 101, 101 [thumbsupbig]

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Gav - 101 mate - think 101 not lathe and mill - 101, 101, 101 [thumbsupbig]

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Thanks for the reminder. I’ll be back on it very soon now this little interlude is sorted. 👍

How could he miss it, it's the size of a small truck?[smilebigeye]

I recently enquired on the load rating of some tread boards, for the intended being a 101.. The answer came back “not suitable for trucks”. [emoji15][emoji3]

Are you talking about traction aids? If so can you get the ex military steel ones? I've heard they make them in aluminium too, now.

Cheers Rod

Got a great little package in the mail today. It was very heavy so knew straight away what it was. My order of tooling and other bits and pieces from bigbjorn. If anybody needs tooling, HSS, taps dies anything like that I would highly recommend you speak to him. All of these parts came at prices that are much better than what you'll find on the shelves of your local tool shop by a mile. His expert advice was also greatly appreciated. As can be seen in the pic below I've got some HSS tool holders parting blades and holders, tap handles, Pitch gauges, knurling tools, boring bars set, high-quality Chuck and Arbor, and a heap of high-speed steel and tungsten tipped tooling as well. Although I've got no way of grinding the tungsten at the moment I will have something for that shortly. Should keep me out of trouble for a little while I'm going to go and put it all in my nice new tooling cabinet now.
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