I can't identify it … but it certainly looks a useful piece of kit !

MichaelG.

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Edited By Ady1 on 04/05/2012 10:10:50

Edited By Ady1 on 04/05/2012 10:11:58

Just the link you gave, and the forum software image link next to the "camera" when posting

The hard bit is resizing it, a top number of 400 seems to work best

A lovely little horizontal borer, as mentioned by Mick above.

Very useful for boring, milling and drilling.

Usually they have an optional adjustable support at the right hand side to support a long boring bar, similar to how you would use a boring bar between centres on a lathe with the work on the cross slide or vertical slide.

The table has the usual x & y axis, the horizontal spindle moves up and down on a vertical guides.

Nigel

PS I want one

Edited By tractionengine42 on 23/06/2012 23:23:19

Sorry, but I beg to differ – you don't get any more axes of movement at all with that arrangement unless you mount the x-y vice at some sort of rakish angle on the table. The saddle has x movement and the table itself has y movement, as is clear from the pictures. I have one of those x-y vices too, and I think that in terms of smooth x-y travel, I'd rather rely on the lathe, any day.

If you have to have some arrangement like that for workholding, you'd be better off employing a proper milling vice rather than that thing – you'd get a far more rigid mounting, and inevitably better results.

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No I don't know what the horizontal boring machine above is, but the principle is the same as that of the Murad Bormilathe. The difference with the Bormilathe is that it also has a raiseable and lowerable tailstock, although aligning the whole lot is a bit of a pain… when I eventually get around to rebuilding mine, I will post pictures, because it's quite unusual.

Edited By Steve Garnett on 24/06/2012 11:11:19