Herbert bench top mill?

[Chris Stevens 2Participant @chrisstevens2]

I came across this little Herbert mill, which seems to be in good usable condition. Wonder if anyone can please provide any info about it?

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Anything on the lathes.co site?

(If you can get past the advertising miasma nothing to do with the site itself!)

[Nigel Graham 2]

On Nigel Graham 2 Said:

Anything on the lathes.co site?

(If you can get past the advertising miasma nothing to do with the site itself!)

No nothing at all on Lathes UK. Someone from another site, suggests its a Frankenstein machine, put together with parts, which may well be the case as the former owner was a toolmaker.  It actually seems more like a jig borer than a mill…………..

[Rod ClemettParticipant @rodclemett60985]

Looks to me like it started life as a Herbert ‘model B’ high speed drilling machine, to which somebody has added a column riser block, x/y table, non-std pulley arrangement  etc.

If you google ‘Herbert B high speed drill’, you should find images of a few standard examples. I’m 90% certain they’ve been discussed on this site on the past too.

Clem

[Chris Stevens 2Participant @chrisstevens2]

Thanks.  Tony from Lathes Uk, has also told me that.  Just have to try it and see how it works.

[RainbowsParticipant @rainbows]

Rather than XY table I think that’s the cross slide and compound slide from a lathe. Worth checking if both feed dials are set right (ie: if you move 1″ does the dial say 1″ or 2″ because it thinks your cutting radius off a diameter) and that the two slides are aligned at a perfect 90.

Will be curious how they’ve set up tool holding and quill feed.

 

[Bo’sunParticipant @bosun58570]

I’m far from an expert, but I’d tend to agree with Rainbows.  The protractor dial may be a bit of a giveaway.

[JohnFParticipant @johnf59703]

I’m with Rod Clemett, it broadly looks like one of the high speed drills they made with a cobbled together milling arrangement,  the slides look to be a cross and compound slide from a lathe ?

John

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