My new toy

[solarman216]

Thought I had better start a new thread on this, I have already mentioned it in Flyingtorquewrenches thread "Time to say good by" but easier here.

So it is a Mill, probably around the 1950's heavy great thing, but does vertical and horizontal work, it did however have some problems, first was the head bearings were shot, easy job for those and sorted, next is the bed lead screw nut, well worn almost stripped, so needed to do something about that, was toying with making my own but it is 5 tpi and my little Myford is only capable of 8 tpi.

So looked at getting one made, yea right, absolutely silly money so looked at other options but none seemed to fit the bill until I saw on a model engineers site a guy who had a similar problem and he made his own out of plastic, so this got me thinking.

This is pretty much the method he used, I will let the pics speak for themselves other than a problem I had to overcome which was the slot for the power drive, clearly I needed to fill that in to mould my nut and used a bit of ali bar and hand cut the threads