dividing head

[joseph tatlerParticipant @josephtatler55359]

Can anyone help regarding a dividing head made by a Spanish make called MILKA.

It seems to have some curious features especially when trying to turn the head through 90 degrees, any information on this make would be really apprecited.

regards

Joe

[joseph tatlerParticipant @josephtatler55359]

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Are you sure about the name, Joe ?

Searching for MILKA finds a lot of Chocolate

But there is a Spanish firm called MECA

**LINK** https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113979303060

MichaelG.

[joseph tatlerParticipant @josephtatler55359]

Mike

yes sorry the d/head is a Milko there are a couple of universal milling machines in the shop as well#

jo

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Personally I've never heard of them, but there might be a photo on this advert
https://www.exapro.com/milko-35-r-p01113087/

See Also
https://www.machinetools.com/en/companies/116618-mancisidor-larranaga-y-cia-sa 

Bill

Edited By peak4 on 22/04/2023 01:31:55

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

This website came up trumps for Milko, and might be good for the gazillion other folk who made or still make machine tools.

Milko was a brand name of the Spanish machine tool maker MANCISIDOR LARRAÑAGA Y CÍA, S.A. who started in 1941. The company appear to be still active 'construcción de maquinas para trabajar los metales', but not using the Milko brand.

In their heyday most industrial manual machine tools laboured flat out round the clock on production work and didn't last long, perhaps 5 years of 3-shift production. Thus there was a large market for replacements and plenty of opportunity for enterprising engineering companies of any type to have a go. In consequence there are many machine tool brands we've never heard of, some of them huge in their time. In terms of volume and value, Myford were tiny compared with Herbert, but Herbert are rarely mentioned today because their extensive range of machine tools were all far too big for hobbyists.

Dave

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Dave, the Herbert model 0V was a vertical milling machine ideal size for a model engineer, loads of height between table and spindle, auto feed to the X axis, built in suds tank/pump, quill with 3" downfeed and a huge spindle.

Emgee

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