Milling Machine Accessories

•     Milling Machine Accessories

•         Wide variety of accessories greatly increase versatility and productivity

•         Accessories classed as fixtures or attachments.

•       Work-holding device fastened to table.

•       Designed to hold work pieces that cannot be readily held in vise or when large quantities are to be machined.

•      Milling Machine Attachments

•         Designed to hold special attachment that increase versatility of machine.

•       Vertical, high-speed, universal, rack milling, slotting.

•         Designed to hold standard cutters.

•       Arbors, collets, and adapters

•         Designed to hold work piece.

•       Vise, rotary table, indexing (dividing) head.

•     Vertical Milling Attachment

•         Enables plain or universal milling machine to be used as a vertical milling machine

•       Mounted on face of column or over arm

•         Angular surfaces made by swiveling head, parallel to face of column up to 45º either side of vertical

•         Used for face milling, end milling, drilling, boring and T-slot milling

•         Universal milling attachment modification allows swiveling in two planes for cutting compound angles

•         Rack Milling Attachment

•         Used to mill longer gear racks (flat gears) than could be cut with standard horizontal milling machine

•       Rack indexing attachment included

•     Slotting Attachment

•       Converts rotary motion of spindle into reciprocating motion

•       Cutting key ways, splines, templates, and irregularly shaped surfaces

•       Length of stroke controlled by adjustable crank

•       Tool slide may be swiveled to any angle in plane parallel to face of column.

•       Arbors

•       Arbors

•       Used for mounting milling cutter

•       Inserted and held in main spindle by draw bolt

•       Shell-end mill arbors

•       Permit face milling horizontally or vertically

•       Fit into main spindle

•     Collets and Adapters

•       Collet adapters

•       used for mounting drills or other tapered-shank tools in main spindle of machine or vertical milling attachment

•       Quick-change adapter

•       Mounted in spindle

•       Permits such operations as drilling, boring, and milling without change in setup of work piece

•     Arbors, Collets, and Adapters

  

•     Milling Machine Vises

•         Plain vise

•       Jaws parallel or 90º to axis of spindle 

Milling Machine Vises

•       Swivel base vise

•       Can swivel through 360º in horizontal plane 

Milling Machine Vises

•       Universal vise

•       Can swivel through 360º in horizontal plane and tilted from 0º to 90 in vertical plane.

Indexing or Dividing Head

•         Permits cutting of bolt heads, gear teeth, ratchets

•         Revolve work as required to cut helical gears and flutes in drills, reamers, and other tools

•         When connected to lead screw of milling machine

Horizontal Boring Mill