Hello welcome to Enots engineering Im Alan
in this week's video we have a new arrival in the workshop
I've been looking for a used milling machine for about two years on ebay and other sites
I've even placed bids for a few but the prices are higher for a good machine
in the end I decided to purchase a new machine which will replace my pedestal drill and cross table
The last time we used a milling machine was in the 1970s
viewers will know that I use my lathe for milling
and have completed many projects by milling on the lathe
There'll be a few weeks before I can get the tools and adaptors I need to hold the milling cutters I have
and get the workshop back to normal
in this video we see some of the problems you may have when the machine arrives
and take a look at the machine and its features
so let's go into the workshop and have a look
well the machine finally arrives and as you can see it's fitted onto a pallet
the driver of the lorry helped me to move the pallet across the drive and up to the garage door
My garage door is over six foot high but I still needed to remove the carton on the top of the machine
to get the pallet and the milling machine into the garage
The carton on the top contained the stand for the milling machine
once this was removed it was easy to move the machine into the garage
I removed the packing case being careful not to catch the staples that had been used to hold the case togethe
and then I took the stand out of the cardboard box ready for assembly
well at the moment my workshop is in a complete mess
I've got bits and pieces all over the place because I've had to make space for this milling machine
I've spent a good three hours lifting the top part onto the machine stand
and now I'm just adjusting these.
The first thing I did before I fitted the machine onto the stand
was fit the feet to the bottom of the stand
these I purchased separately they don't come with the machine
these feet are on an nylon pad some are on rubber and some are just cast
It consists of two nuts two washers and the thread and I'll explain how you fit those to the machine
to level the Machine up
This is the steel of the cabinet
the leg or the feet have nylon or rubber pads on the bottom
in a ball joint, then the thread of the bolt you put a nut and a washer
then the cabinet and another washer and a nut on top
and you use a lower not too higher
or lower the cabinet to get the machine level and once it's level you use the
top not just to lock it in position
This parts the stand
but you can fit the machine to a table
just set the level backwards and forwards
when the machine arrived this top part was bolted to a pallet
with the table and the base was separate
if you buy a machine like this first problem you'll get when it arrives is
how do yo lift up the 425 kilo of the milling machine onto the stand
so for a home workshop you'll need some lifting equipment
I hired a small truck that would lift the pallet
I had to jack the pallet up to get the machine under the pallet
Then I had to jack the machine up on the pallet to get the forks of the lift machine under the the bed of the milling machine
lifted the machine up put the table underneath
From there on it's quite simple just to put these four bolts in each corner
to bolt the machine to the base
the base has a draw on the top here in this drawer I've just have
the handle for the up and down of the head
and a cupboard underneath
I've located it next to the lathe
This machine is the Warco super major milling machine
We'll start at the top of the machine on this machine there's a
small motor which powers the rise and fall of the Z axis
just below and to one side is a bigger motor which powers the spindle
it's a two horsepower motor running on 240 volts
At the top you've a normal drawbar this is the top of the spindle
you've have your nut for the drawbar that's just a cover that protects it
on this control panel we have
Emergency stop, power on, spindle stop, spindle forward ,spindle reverse
and this controls the column so you can lift the spindle up and down
on the front of the machine we have
A gearbox this is the gearbox inside here with the high and low speed and
three different settings for each see down here it goes from 75 RPM to 1600
there's a digital height gauge too see how far the spindles moved up or down
you've got the rough height gauge a bit crude pointer on this side is your
spindle up and down fine feed
At the bottom you have the guard and as you open the guard
there's an interlock switch you can hear it click if the power is on it
will turn the power off as I open that guard so the machine won't work
If I press the start button it won't work
This caused me a bit of a problem when I first had it because when I took the machine out of the packing case
The first thing I remove was this guard I thought that's something that could easily get broken
So I took the guard off put the machine on the stand moved into position
connected the electrics and nothing would work
There is nothing in the manual or in the instructions to say that this guard has an interlock
there are no visible signs of any wires around the switch so as soon as I opened the guard.
if you look at the power light there goes off and nothing on here works if the guards open
close the guard press the power button everything will work
Just behind the guard this cover here
this holds a spring the return spring for the head
it's rather like a pedestal drill we have a big coiled spring inside
and you can tension this to make the head come up
this is the data plate on the side of the machine
both slide ways are covered with the concertinas to stop swarf getting up to the slide ways
on the side of the gearbox you have a lever
This is like a drilling machine where you ca pull the handle and the spindle will
come down for drilling
You also have a dial here you can rotate unlock the lock and rotate this dial
for the stop the depth
This screw here locks it so you can't put the feed on
Now if I pull the handle forward it engages the power feed
To work the feed on the head just turn it to the on position here
select the feed that you want, switch it on and you see this is turning
Reverse
Engage it
When it gets to the depth you set
it will automatically stop
Two locks here to lock the slide
Nuts here that you can undo to rotate the head 90 degrees left or right
Here you've got the oil level for the head
there's an LED lamp fitted to the machine with a switch
The handle fits on to this part here so if for any reason you want to do it by hand
You can turn the head up and down by hand
Your advised not to leave this on because when you
use the electric up-and-down mechanisum this spins
so it may make the handle spin and it could either catch on the lamp
And on the back here you've have the main on/off switch for the machine
This end we have a power feed for the table movement
By adjusting this knob here you can slow or speed the table up
This lever puts it in the direction you need to go forward or backwards on the table
here we have a rapid switch moves the table
this is the on/off switch
This end of the table is a standard handle
This is metric all the machine is metric
you have stops for the table as they hit this switch box
it will automatically stop the table moving
clamps to clamp the table and this is the cross feed
Now let's go through the equipment you get with the Machine
You get a number 3 Morse taper to an R8 adapter
The spindle on the machine is an R8 spindle
you get a number 3 Morse taper on the outside to number 2 Morse taper on the inside
that will fit in and there and take you from an R8 to a number 2 Morse taper
you get this milling cutter holder which is an R8 to one 1" diameter on the end
You get the Jacobs type Chuck with an R8 to B16 adapter
a chuck key
this small oil bottle
a pair of bolts that fit the tee slots so you can hold a voice on the machine
a spanner a
drill drift and some allen keys for the various cap heads and sockets on the machine.
it's also came four bolts with this welded part on the end
and I think these are for if you want to bolt the machine to a table you can use these bolts under the table
too bolt the machine to the table
All the tools come with this plastic toolbox which they all fit into
I'm just performing the spindle run in period
what they say in the manual is too run the spindle for ten minutes
in each of the speeds starting with the
slow speed and then going up to the fast speeds
so that's going to take me an hour to run the head spindle in
and after I'd ran the machine in I drain the oil from the head into a plastic bottle
let the oil settle so any bits of metal
would go to the bottom poured most of it back into the head and then the oil with
the bits of metal in at the bottom of the bottle I poured through a coffee
filter so that the oil could be used
well that's it for this week I hope that was interesting
hope to see you next week on Enots engineering