Atlas Horizontal mill

[Rob]

The m6 in the PN means it is from a 6 inch lathe. The gears used on the 6 inch are different. You might give Clausing a call. A lot of the time new parts are cheaper than used off eBay. They still carry a lot of the lathe parts. Not so much with the mill and shaper specific parts.

 

[Rob]

When I was cleaning and reassembling mine, I noticed that there's an automatic trip(drive trip pin) that will push the drive engagement pin out of engagement independent of the trip on the front of the table when feeding the table to the right. This seemed very strange to me, as that's the climb milling direction, which is FORBIDDEN in many places in their documentation. When I was feeding (by hand) to watch the trip happen, I found that my table binds dramatically about 1/8" from the trip activating. If I'd been counting on this, I would have blown up something on my mill. You may have saved me from the same fate! Thank you!

For now, I think I'll just put in a longer drive trip pin to be sure I don't mess up.

I wonder if this was a upgrade. On my MFB I do not have this option. I just looked and both plates on the ends of the table for the lead screw are the same. I do plan on making larger dials and when I do I think I will add this option as well as making a couple of kickouts for each end.

 

[Green Frog]

Froggie, that would be AWESOME! wow. TIA!

Disaster struck today. I engaged the auto-feed and didn't realize the table was already near the end of travel.. yep... POW! blew out a gear.
Looks like M6-161-20 needs to be replaced now. I'm assuming the number is good for my MF too.
Hope I can find one, or I'll have to part out his one.

Sounds like you are about due for a LUCKY break! You just got your bad Karma delivered for a while. I would do as somebody suggested and contact Clausing... the Change-O-Matic gear box is said to have been very lightly adapted from the lathe gear box which was made a LOT longer. The parts numbers would support this.

I'll need to contact the disrtributor about my disk and (hopefully) a replacement. I'll let you know how that works out.

 

[34_40]

I'm really sorry to hear that. Were you feeding to the left so that you ran out of threads on the leadscrew?

When I was cleaning and reassembling mine, I noticed that there's an automatic trip(drive trip pin) that will push the drive engagement pin out of engagement independent of the trip on the front of the table when feeding the table to the right. This seemed very strange to me, as that's the climb milling direction, which is FORBIDDEN in many places in their documentation. When I was feeding (by hand) to watch the trip happen, I found that my table binds dramatically about 1/8" from the trip activating. If I'd been counting on this, I would have blown up something on my mill. You may have saved me from the same fate! Thank you!

For now, I think I'll just put in a longer drive trip pin to be sure I don't mess up.

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I was looking at the parts diagram and couldn't find the M6-161-20. Do you mean M6-101-20? The small gear on the inside of the middle shaft of the outer three gear sets?
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If that's the right gear, don't panic. They do come up on ebay, and sometimes at reasonable prices. Three sold on 1/29/16 for $17.99, and 2 sold on March 24 for $14. (plus shipping in both cases).
There's one for about $30 right now: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unused-Craf...539232?hash=item35ff3e4b20:g:Vj8AAOSw3mpXEmnk That link is strange, as the title says unused, the item condition says "used" and the description below says unused.

1- Yes, I was "accidently" feeding to the left. I was chatting with someone at the same time and failed to notice that the table was at the end of it's travel. I'll have to investigate this pin for the auto kickout feature.
2- Yes, I did mean M6-101-20. I'll "blame" my fat fingers for the typo this time.. LOL..
3- Thanks for the link. I'll probably scoop it up once I get home from work.

 

[34_40]

Thanks Froggie.. I'll take some GOOD Karma for awhile....

 

[Green Frog]

I got a reply back from the vendor... he's sending me a fresh copy of the disc. After I've had time to watch it through, I'll be ready to loan it to you. If you will send me an alert (or PM or whatever we call them around here) with your snail mail address and I'll ship it off to you within a few days of it getting here.

I find also that the video and pictures from "Blue Chips" helps with visualizing what I need to do myself.

 

[34_40]

Blue Chips??? Wha?!?!?!?! LOL..

Thank You so much! Message is on it's way, or whatever they call it here! rofl..

 

[wa5cab]

34-40,

Most of the parts used on an MFC are the same as those used on the MF. However, in Downloads is Atlas Mill Bulletin MMB-5, which covers all 12 models (from M1 through MHC).

 

[Green Frog]

Blue Chips??? Wha?!?!?!?! LOL..

Thank You so much! Message is on it's way, or whatever they call it here! rofl..

Blue Chips Machine Shop has a dot com site where he sells stuff and posts blogs and YouTube style videos from time to time. He did a clean-up of a MFC before selling it a couple of years ago and last time I checked the blog he posted on it was still up.

I'm still new enough on this forum that some of the terminology is still a little arcane to me. I'm used to referring to PMs (personal messages) but we don't have that pulldown in our banner here. Whatever it's called, I got one from you and sent a response which you should have by now.

 

[Mondo]

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I'm still new enough on this forum that some of the terminology is still a little arcane to me. I'm used to referring to PMs (personal messages) but we don't have that pulldown in our banner here. Whatever it's called, I got one from you and sent a response which you should have by now.

PMs here are call "conversations" and you can invite others, or block others from being invited.

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