For those of you that missed my original post I started a project where I took the mill head off of my HF mill/lathe combo and built a stand for it to make it a stand alone mill. As of yesterday the conjoined twin separation surgery was a success. What was a lathe mill combo unit is officially a stand-alone lathe and a stand-alone mill. I cut both aluminum and steel with the mill and both metals cut well.



I need to do some tweaking to the cross slide. The gibs are a little small and the gib adjustments are all different length. The gib locks are not very effective and will need to be replaced. There is a little vibration when cutting but that is to be expected as I set it up on a temporary table. That will also be reduced when I fell the bottom tubing with led which should add 100-150 LBS. I have a few other adjustments that will need to be done before I take it to the powder coater, but over all I am very happy with it.

Here is what it looks like all set up for test cuts.



There is a height adjustment accomplished with 1 2 3 blocks it gives me 4 height adjustments from 0-4"


I used the speed adjustment pulleys as a quick and simple way to drive the unit, and made the motor mount adjustable to take up belt slop.




Here is the fabricated base with out the cross-slide table or the mill head.



Like I said I have a few more things to do to it as well as a digital RPM readout, and a DRO to mount up, but over all I am very happy with it!