Or in other words, adding a universal dividing head to a universal mill.
Around this time last year I started a thread on universal mills suitable forthe home machine shop. Around 6 months ago I snagged an old 'NEWS' universal dividing head, managed to repair it and so then looked for a machine to put it on.
It took some months and lots of running around but I now have a smallish universal mill. My question is (as this is a non OEM dividing head) how are the two linked. I know the hand wheel comes off the left end of the table and a gear is mounted onto the shaft, but I can't see any mounting points on the mill for banjos or other things.
Has anyone got any pictures or can describe how their set up is done? I suspect I will need to make a couple more gears and some sort of mounting for them but I'd prefer not to overlook the obvious while I devise something more highly complex.
Michael
Around this time last year I started a thread on universal mills suitable forthe home machine shop. Around 6 months ago I snagged an old 'NEWS' universal dividing head, managed to repair it and so then looked for a machine to put it on.
It took some months and lots of running around but I now have a smallish universal mill. My question is (as this is a non OEM dividing head) how are the two linked. I know the hand wheel comes off the left end of the table and a gear is mounted onto the shaft, but I can't see any mounting points on the mill for banjos or other things.
Has anyone got any pictures or can describe how their set up is done? I suspect I will need to make a couple more gears and some sort of mounting for them but I'd prefer not to overlook the obvious while I devise something more highly complex.
Michael
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