Next 1/16th machine; Universal Miller

[Hydrostat]

Hi Marty,

I really enjoy your way of modeling with its combination of different materials. And I even more like the way you paint your items - I'm really tense how this will come out. There's one technical part I don't understand: What is the visible thread for (the aluminium one above the footplate)? It has another thread inside that seems to be used to higher or lower the table.

Great work!

Volker

[billmart]

Wow!!!  That is beautiful, Marty.  I love your use of multiple materials.

Bill Martinsen

[finescalerr]

Adequate. -- Russ

[Andi Little]

Martin............. I'm sorry bloke, but every day I log on here and I'm faced with examples of such elevated quality ...........

Seriously ........... I'm running out of superlatives!!!!

So in order to simplify things let me say that the tube and pipe for the cutting oil [pigeons milk as we used to call it] is a rare example of understated excellence ................ "I know" - but sometimes the humblest of thing

[SandiaPaul]

Great Marty!
What did you use for the cutter, it looks good.

One idea and then a story about what kind of job you could have in it.
Castle nuts.
When I was 16 or 17 I worked in this great old shop, the guy was a collector of old machinery just like this one, plus old gas engines, a steam tractor and shovel, etc...
So I was slotting castle nuts on a horizontal mill. It was in a fixture that held maybe 20 nuts or so. You would take a pass and then loosen a nut on the fixture then turn the nuts for the next slot.
Well, the cutter, which was about 6" in diam and maybe3/16" thick, jammed and broke into a bunch of pieces. One piece flew across the shop and just tweaked the kid(who was even younger than me) in his hat brim.  Everyone always picked on this kid and he thought I threw something at him.
I told him he didn't even want to know what almost happened to him!


Paul

[EZnKY]

Very, very cool Marty.
You inspired me to pull out some of my old catalogs.  Found this in a 1941 one from B&S.

I'm amazed at what we used to know how to do...

[lab-dad]

Thanks guys!

Volker
The threaded part you ask about was used to (manually) raise & lower the "table" (actually called the "knee".

MPH
"Denise, lets see whats behind door number one.......a 12 pack of beer, a bottle of rum and a train porn magazine!

Paul
Funny story! I was gonna post a picture of a figure without his head next to the machine but it is already in 126 pieces.

There are two things missing though and i am surprised no one caught me on them.
Last night while going over the pieces in preparation of paint i realized I had not attached the wall around the base that forms a sort of well (I guess for spilled coolant)
And also the bosses for the bolts that secure it to the floor.
More things to add! 

-Marty

[marc_reusser]

Really a lovely piece. Beautiful detail bits and fabrication. Look forward to what you do with the painting.

[Barney]

This is just amazing stuff such attention to detail - how is the workshop building coming on
Barney

[lab-dad]

Thanks Marc, glad your still checking on me! 

Barney, also thanks.

The building has been paused waiting on windows.
They arrived last week, now waiting on the glass.
Microscope glass ordered also.
Still trying to decide on flooring but updated pictures soon!
Thanks for asking.
-Marty

[Chuck Doan]

The workshop will be no doubt amazing to behold.

[marc_reusser]

Thanks Marc, glad your still checking on me! 

-Marty

Heck, I'm just hanging around waiting for you to do a Shay at this scale.

[lab-dad]

who squealed?

[marc_reusser]

What? Really? Funny.....I was just making a comment based on your interests, new modeling scale, and reaction to that big foam Shay, by what's his name (wanting to say Revelia....but I know its not)

[marklayton]

I have this old Brown & Sharpe mill in my shop.  Bears a brass tag from the Bureau of Naval Ordnance from 1943.  Came from a university lab where it wasn't used much, so it's still accurate and tight.  Thanks to the mass of the machine, and the 5 hp motor, it can hog a lot of metal per cut.  There's only one motor that simultaneously drives the spindle, the x-axis, and either the y- or z-axis.  It's strictly manual, so the types of work are limited.

Mark