Thanks for letting me join, I have a Busy Bee 240 mill that was sold as an Acraturn? in Australia by Hare and Forbes. I inherited from my Dad along with a 9*20 lathe. I am still learning about the mill and hope to learn more from this group.

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??? ??? I haven't seen a round column mill like that before , where you can tilt the head? . That's a pretty neat option in my book . How big is your table ?

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Welcome!? I'm starting over here, had to sell my old mill before we moved as it was too heavy to ship halfway around the world.? You'll find that a mill is a very useful tool, once you have it you'll find more and more things you can make/repair yourself.

Now to get some steel and build a base for my bandsaw and mount the old 50Hz motor a friend gave me.....

Thanks for letting me join, I have a Busy Bee 240 mill that was sold as an Acraturn? in Australia by Hare and Forbes. I inherited from my Dad along with a 9*20 lathe. I am still learning about the mill and hope to learn more from this group.

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This is the mechanism to keep the quill over the work while raising or lowering the head.
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I’m confused as to how that works. Do you have other shots of the head?

While tilting the head in the x or y direction can be very handy the machine does not have a controlled way of adjusting for tramming. In the x directing it is very well balanced with a slight bias to the rear so I use a short 3/8" bolt and nut between the casting and the transmission housing when tramming using the nut for fine adjustment. In the y direction it is massively biased to the right and if released with the safety pin removed will rotate 90 degrees in a hurry. I use a long 3/4" bolt between the base and the head with a bit of aluminum tube sitting on the nut and washer, again turning the nut provides fine adjustment. I have taken to leaving the long bolt in place parking the head on it when not in use.






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Sorry about the tardiness in replying, the table is 28 3/4" * 8 1/4". There is also a slot in the column that a block fits into as well as into the casting, a grub screw pushes the block into the slot stopping the column from twisting when you raise the head and so keeping you quill over the work.

Looks good

Dave?