Atlas lathe milling attachment for sale
This will be my spring-time resurrection project. Hence my recent acquisition of a grubby old Atlas MFC mill. I did that with assistance from a friend who has a Bridgeport.Īs I get more projects that require more milling than lathe work I find myself wanting a mill.
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#Atlas lathe milling attachment for sale full
But that is available only as a raw iron casting and requires full machining. Some other tasks required more elaborate attachments. Gearcutting is another possibi8lity but I have not attempted that yet. Another project was indexing mounting holes in a round flange. I have also cut V-grooves in small brass and aluminum vise jaws with excellent results. I used the Atlas milling attachment to cut a Woodruff slot on a 3/4" shaft, very successfully. x,y,z.Ī few added accessories and you can do a lot with your Atlas lathe. Lathe/mill that actually has a mini mill built on top of the lathe the Palmgren is basically a vise that can be moved vertically and when mounted on the cross slide of the lathe can be movedįrom front to back and from right to left. If I had my 'drothers I would like a bigger table with more travel, but the mini lathe is far and above the little milling device that came with the lathe. It's no Bridgeport (actually far from it), but I've found it to be a very useful tool that I often use it more I also have a G8689 mini mill that I got thrown in with the lathe (and tons of other stuff) I really didn't think at the time that I would even set the mini mill up, but after sitting onĪ back table in my little home shop, I finally decided to try the little feller out. I tried to use it but found it extremely limited for even small work. Each had its market and each served their respective market well and it's unfair to put the two up head to head, iI's really no contest.Although I don't have an Atlas, my little G0602 which I got used, had a Palmgren milling attachment with it. The last production Atlas-12 I looked at (years ago) was around $2200 IIRC, the last production South Bend 10" I looked at in the same year was $5200. While Atlas and South Bend may have had machines that occupied the same size segmant of the lathe market they were two completely different classes of machines with respect to design and quality of constructuion. It is not unheard of to see a clapped-out Atlas 10 with a working gearbox bought for the full market price just to get the gearbox off it.
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Nowadays folks want a QC box and an Atlas 10 QC gearbox is extremely rare and consequently very expensive, several times their original cost, even in poor condition, which almost all of them tend to be because they are now all at least 50 years old. QC boxes were of course always available as an accessory which in the 1950s added maybe $125 to the cost of the machine. Huge numbers of that machine (estimated at 1/2 million) were produced and the majority of those were sold without quick-change gearboxes for reasons of economy. The Atlas 10 (one of which I own) has the same phenomenon.
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Just as with any tool mfg the number of accessories produced, such as collet sets, were tiny compared to machine production numbers and the marketplace now reflects that difference. (At one point in the 1970s, shortly before production ceased, IIRC you could buy the last version of the 618 for $289.) Most of these buyers didn't know what a collet was and to reduce the initial cost they bought only as much tooling as they needed to do basic turning. There were many tens of 1000's of 618s sold, mostly to folks who always wanted a "lathe" to fiddle around with and this machine was the entry point. The prices asked (and paid) are simply a function of supply vs.
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I've owned and trade a number of Atlas/Craftsman 618s over the years and while there might be a tiny segment out there who are indeed "Collecting" the vast majority of owners are simply trying to accessorize and increase the versatility of their machines.