Rock bottom?

[WarnerConstCo.]

Have you hit rock bottom when you decide to set up another small shop to be able to make parts to get your other machines up and running?

I have been fighting the temptation hard, to not buy any metal working machines.

I may have found the bottom.

It's a Milwaukee Type 2HL made by Kearney.

It's also a bit heavier then I expected, ok about 2k pounds more then I thought.

It is sporting a War Finish badge.







I am clueless on this stuff, but have a good friend who would be willing to teach me just enough to get me going.

 

[semenza]

That door at the bottom makes it look like it should be stoked with coal!  [big grin]

Seth

 

[teocaf]

that a really good looking machine, with what seems to be a swiveling head.

and it looks like you can still get manuals and tables for it:

http://www.ozarkwoodworker.com/KEARNEY-TRECKER-Milwaukee-1H-2HL-Milling-Machine-Part-Manual_p_414.html

http://www.fabersurplusmanuals.com/milwaukee-table-of-leads-for-1h-2hl-2h-milling-machines-kearney-827/

looking forward to seeing you get that puppy up and running

 

[felkadelic]

Wow, what a beast!  Like you I'm having a hard time not branching out into other non-wood media.  Already have an X-Carve on order and am starting to look at 3d printers.  So many toys, so little time...

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Yes the head will rotate. 

 

[rst]

That little door in the bottom is where the chipmunks get inserted....it's amazing what can be done with the proper gearing [big grin]

 

[greg mann]

In their day these were the 'shapers' of the metalworking world. (I know, there actually were metalworking shapers back then but they don't correlate to woodworking shapers.) The real bottom for a machine like this will be the tooling. This is a very rugged and rigid machine that was designed to run at relatively low RPMs with high speed steel tooling, or even high carbon tooling. Today, carbide rules the roost. Keep an eye out for compatible tooling, Darcy, and you will have a very useful machine. Whether those uses fill your restoration habit I can't say. [scratch chin]

 

[fritter63]

Well, I'm currently putting together a CNC router, and most of my justification use cases involve making jigs.

So yeah, my shop has taken on a life of its own....

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

I got it running.  I think it has an issue and I am not sure if I want to deal with figuring out that issue.

 

[rmwarren]

Well, I'm currently putting together a CNC router, and most of my justification use cases involve making jigs.

So yeah, my shop has taken on a life of its own....

[member=10223]fritter63[/member]

Ha! I just ordered my 2nd CNC router mill contraption, the marketing email's justification was that I could use it to make the aluminum plates I need to make other CNC contraptions... there goes another 4SF of my +/- 110SF of shop area.

[doh]

There has to be a cure out there...

RMW

 

[Cheese]

[member=3891]WarnerConstCo.[/member]
It actually appears to be in pretty good shape. Seems like mostly surface rust on the machined surfaces. I'ts a bonus round that you got the vise thrown in. Did any tooling come with it?

[member=22]greg mann[/member]
Many moons ago I actually operated a metal shaper for a project I needed to make. What a weird machine. Best way to describe it is an automated chisel for use on large blocks of metal. Insert a large lathe tool, set the depth of cut and hit the start button. Pretty impressive to watch 1/16" thick metal chips, smoking hot and blue/black in color being planed from a block of CR or HR steel.  [eek]

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

No tooling, I have access to what I may need, including holders.

Its making a horrible noise, looks hard to work on.

 

[Scott B.]

It is a psychological condition...

But...if you need to fix the machine you need to fix the machines you have, then there is just too much fixing going on.

It sure is hard to tell the poison from the cure sometimes.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Solved issue somehow.  Table goes in and out, up and down as well.

Unfortunately someone removed the parts for the power table transverse

Geeze.  Stupid 125.00 mills.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

I am an idiot, everything works as it should.

Found a couple 40 taper holders and a couple endmills, might make chips soon.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Few more pictures, pretty much done with the clean up and everything seems to function as it should.















Quite the lump of iron.

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Maybe I should set my kapex base on there and see if I can flatten out that horrible casting..... [bite tongue] [jawdrop]

 

[Kev]

How on earth are you going to use that thing without giving it a fresh coat of paint [eek] [big grin]

 

[johnmocha]

I highly recommend vintage machinery.org and owwm.org.  Lots of folks tackling projects like yours. http://www.vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=2098&tab=3

 

[Cheese]

It cleaned up real nice. [big grin] For final install, are you going to mount it on vibration pads?