So, in August of last year I posted a thread about the exorbitant cost of rebuilding an Enco 100 series mill. I also stated that I might be able to get this thing if the company decided to scrap it. Well, they scrapped it, but the liability police wouldn't let me take it out. We went clear to the corporate legal department, but no dice. They hired a scrapper to get it off site.
Fast forward. Unbeknownst to the company, I am friends with the scrapper. They took the machine to their shop in November and kept it there until last week. They must not have fed it well because for some reason it ran away from home and landed on my shop doorstep. Now comes the fun part.
It's in bits and pieces. It is a model number 100-1029, 3 HP, born in 1992 in, yes, China. There are a lot of pieces that have Taiwan stamped in them, so I'm not sure that it wasn't made there before China and Taiwan got a divorce. Regardless, it's a metric machine.
The base is complete and was not touched. I'll simply clean it up a bit. No paint needed. The head is a different story. It has been disassembled and put in a box. The one part that I am happy about is that the spindle has not been removed from the quill. And the spindle turns smooth as glass. Leaving it as is. Now the not so fun part.
There is no information that I can find on this specific model. However, it looks very close to another 100 series mill, and I downloaded the manual for a 100-15xx. A lot of the pictures look the same so that'll help identify some of the little parts in the box.
Anyone know if all of the 100 series were kinda sorta maybe close to similar? The manual I downloaded has information on both stepped and stepless pulley arrangements. I have the stepless speed change pulleys, and will be also be using a freq. drive to get three phases.
Are there any parts to be had for these actors? Does anyone know if this could be equivalent of something else only re-branded? I immediately need an elevating crank handle and a drawbar (R8 taper). And I'm sure I'll need a few more bits and bobs before this thing makes chips. Please have patience.
Fast forward. Unbeknownst to the company, I am friends with the scrapper. They took the machine to their shop in November and kept it there until last week. They must not have fed it well because for some reason it ran away from home and landed on my shop doorstep. Now comes the fun part.
It's in bits and pieces. It is a model number 100-1029, 3 HP, born in 1992 in, yes, China. There are a lot of pieces that have Taiwan stamped in them, so I'm not sure that it wasn't made there before China and Taiwan got a divorce. Regardless, it's a metric machine.
The base is complete and was not touched. I'll simply clean it up a bit. No paint needed. The head is a different story. It has been disassembled and put in a box. The one part that I am happy about is that the spindle has not been removed from the quill. And the spindle turns smooth as glass. Leaving it as is. Now the not so fun part.
There is no information that I can find on this specific model. However, it looks very close to another 100 series mill, and I downloaded the manual for a 100-15xx. A lot of the pictures look the same so that'll help identify some of the little parts in the box.
Anyone know if all of the 100 series were kinda sorta maybe close to similar? The manual I downloaded has information on both stepped and stepless pulley arrangements. I have the stepless speed change pulleys, and will be also be using a freq. drive to get three phases.
Are there any parts to be had for these actors? Does anyone know if this could be equivalent of something else only re-branded? I immediately need an elevating crank handle and a drawbar (R8 taper). And I'm sure I'll need a few more bits and bobs before this thing makes chips. Please have patience.
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