Anybody Familiar With Homge Mills?

[OrangeAlpine]

This is my mill.





Bought it a few years ago from a used machinery dealer about 30 miles from me. He said it was a jig borer. It weighs 1250 pounds (including pallet), cost a buck a pound! I think I did alright, it is in like new condition and a nice mill. I do not push it, this is a hobby, you know!

I have not been able to find any info about Homge mills, wondering if anyone can shed some light on them.

Bill

 

[george wilson]

It DOES look like a jig bore. Are you sure it is suitable for milling? Jig bores can do light milling,but their soundless are not really suitable for milling in the ordinary sense. The bearings might not stand up to much milling if it is one.

What is the spindle bored for? R8 is the most common size.(looks like R8's in your rack). How do you tighten the draw bar? Is there one?(looks like a hex bar sticking up out of the top). WHAT grads are the hand wheels in? A decent jig bore would be in ten thousandths. Yours has pretty small graduated coolers on it to be in tenths. I'm not sure about smaller jig bores having grads that fine.

I haven't heard of that size,but it is built on a rather typical jig bore design.

 

[kd4gij]

You might try to contact these people ( http://www.homge.com.tw/company.html ) It apears thay don't make machines eny more. It does look like a jig borer and not a mill. That said it proble is better than most bench top mill's

 

[OrangeAlpine]

The dealer said it would be fine for milling, that the bearings were up to it. But in a sense, I really don't care. I figure that it will be good for a few years and that's all I've got left in the machine shop. It is a nice, tight little machine and will last my lifetime. I agree with kd4gij, it is probably better than most bench mills. If I needed it to hog cast iron, I would be looking for a replacement.

The spindle is bored for R8, that hex thing is the drawbar. Yes, I do have R8 tooling, but I switched over to DA 180. It came with a DA 180 adaptor and one collet, but I decided (for reasons that are not entirely clear to me now) to go with R8. LONG LIVE DA180! I tighten the drawbar with a 3/4" oven end wrench, using the built in spindle lock. The collar grads are one thousandths.

Bill