That is probably what I will do. I wouldn't need it to do everything those ones do. Basically just engrave cylinders. Synchronizing the roll with the lateral engraving is the hard part.
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fixing a folding shovel the wrong way (making a hirth joint)
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That is probably what I will do. I wouldn't need it to do everything those ones do. Basically just engrave cylinders. Synchronizing the roll with the lateral engraving is the hard part.
To be honest what caught my eye was the dividing head mounted to the face of the milling machine. In looking a bit more it appears to be a Fredrich Deckel Milling machine. Both appear to be very similar to my Tos FN20 milling machine that was made in Czechoslovakia, because being a communist country importation into the USA was prohibited. https://www.casavola.com/en/listings/1448189-buone-toolroom-milling-machine-tos-celakovice-fn-20
The configuration of this type of milling machine offers many advantages over the Bridgeport design. Could you tell me a little about your machine, where you purchased it and how long ago. Until now I have never see the Deckel and suspect that the TOS FN20 that I have is really a copy of the Deckel. I had no idea how the engraving is done on parts assuming today that is it a CNC hobby engraver.
Sorry to digress from the body of your thread. I do like the shovel coupling though.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.
or do like any sane person and make some sort of cnc router haha
Good eye - my mill is a 1955(?) deckel FP1. I got it in 2020 from the estate of a guy who had worked at E. Leitz Canada (now raytheon elcan) for something like 50 years, which is super cool since I use/fix/modify Leica cameras. the mill also came with an almost complete tooling cabinet which has almost every accessory in the deckel catalogue, except for the spiral milling attachment. I've wanted an FP1 specifically since I heard about them back in uni, and I feel so lucky to have gotten this one in particular...
your TOS caught my eye in your shaper thread. It's not a 1:1 copy of any deckel (which DO exist - the alexander master toolmaker for example), but a derivative sort of like the TOS FNK compared to a bridgeport. I've used a couple TOS machines and have a pretty good opinion of them.
some random pictures cause why not:
modifying a camera back
testing out the slotting head (havent used it in ages haha)
milling a turbo flange on an exhaust header for a 3 rotor uhhh whatever you would call an extended 13B.. 21B? I forget
repairing a broken pinion shaft on an instax back
hex milling to make a collet block ...
Thank you for the write up and additional pictures. The dividing head is identical to the one on my TOS FN20. All of the tooling? What a great find. My machine was purchased by a local Machine Shop Grimsby Machine Shop located in Winona just next to Grimsby. Purchased in 1977 for $27,000 to do a specific task that was done by apprentices when things were slow, the company ran out of work for it 5 years later and it sat until 1992 in the corner of the shop unused. Too big for most in the hobby and too small for a machine shop I purchased it for $1750. I look from time time for other tooling but normally find it in Europe and it is expensive. Shipping would be a killer.
TonyK.
Grimsby Ontario Canada.