Hobbymat BFE Milling Machine Base and X Y table

[RaisedByWolves]

Got a NOS Prazi SD300/Hobbymat 65 with milling BFE head and would like to acquire the stand alone base for the milling head.

Please let me know what you have or if you know of an article where someone has retrofitted a non standard X Y table of good quality to this mill.

 

[matthewsx]

Got a NOS Prazi SD300/Hobbymat 65 with milling BFE head and would like to acquire the stand alone base for the milling head.

Please let me know what you have or if you know of an article where someone has retrofitted a non standard X Y table of good quality to this mill.

Hello and welcome,

While what you're asking seems perfectly reasonable you may have difficulty locating a sufficiently rigid X/Y table to make a suitable milling machine. I'd avoid the Chinese ones on eBay since they're pretty useless for anything besides drilling equally spaced holes.

Little machine shop has this one which might do the trick but 70lbs isn't much.

X-Y Table Assembly for Micro Mill | X-Y Table for Sale

Made of cast iron and steel, this is the complete assembly for a Super X1 Micro Mill. This X-Y table assembly includes a long table and extended X-axis travel. Order today.

littlemachineshop.com

They're pretty helpful and should be able to give enough info for you to figure out if it'll work or not.

Cheers,

John

 

[Eddyde]

Welcome to HM, Can you give us some dimensions constraints and desired X-Y travel if the table you desire? Also, please post some pictures of your new machine!

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Thanks for the heads up John and the welcome guys.

Are you sitting down?


I got all of this and much more for $750. Everything is brand new.

What looks like rust is just cosmoline spray. It sucks to try and remove but under the neath its all bright and shiny.










There's literally a bucket full of tooling I haven't even gone through.




As to the X Y table, Im kinda hoping to find an original unit in good shape but I may experiment with something like one of LMS's tables or even A Palmgren table.
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[Eddyde]

Wow that's a nice score!

 

[DavidR8]

Wow, score!!!

 

[RaisedByWolves]

I almost feel guilty........ Almost.

The guy who sold it to me was renting a storage locker and just wanted everything out. After I paid him he just kept handing me stuff and saying take it, I want it gone.

Cleaned up nice.




Some of the goods.

Much of this does not fit these lathes, but fit the ones sold at littlemachineshop and others.

Im going to fit a collet nose on both the lathe and the mill.

 

[matthewsx]

Okay, seems like you’re just trying to have a separate lathe and mill. Otherwise you could use the mill as intended with the lathe as a base.

You could try it that way to begin with then change it up later if you’re not happy using it that way.

Btw,



John

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Okay, seems like you’re just trying to have a separate lathe and mill. Otherwise you could use the mill as intended with the lathe as a base.

You could try it that way to begin with then change it up later if you’re not happy using it that way.

Btw,



John

Exactly, and yes, my name is Hoover.

I do this for a living so using the lathe/mill combo would only disappoint me. It seems to be one of the better designed lathe/mill combos out there, but having them separate is what I want.