What Vise For An Atlas Mfc Horizontal Mill?

[wa5cab]

Who makes the screwless vise?

 

[ogberi]

Saw it on LMS, been wanting to get it, but the hobby fund is a bit low.

 

[spongerich]

I'm still looking for the factory oil pump system. Haven't turned up a sniffle in over a year.

One showed up on eBay last week.

I tossed in a bid of $200 since I knew that the chances of seeing another one any time soon were slim.

It ended up selling for $510! That's nearly what I paid for my whole milling machine.

 

[wa5cab]

Hah! I bid $500 on it and didn't get it. It is (for a prospective buyer, not seller) a sad fact that for any of the four serious hobbyist grade badges (Atlas, Logan, Clausing or South Bend), any significant accessory is probably going to cost you from 1/3X to 2X what the base bare machine cost. I have an original rotary table for the mill in NOS condition. I paid more for it than I did for the MFA. And if I had only followed the auction more closely, would have done the same for the pump.

 

[34_40]

And I couldn't compete at those prices also. I couldn't believe what the little auto stop went for also!

 

[Green Frog]

Wish I could send a pic of the vise mounted to the machine but my Atlas mill resides at my parents house which is over an hour away from me. I have both the vise and rotary table. As well as other neat things like the factory oil pump system.

I'm still looking for the factory oil pump system. Haven't turned up a sniffle in over a year.

I wonder whether we could get some detailed pix and even some drawings of the factory oil pump system, or even the drip (gravity feed?) system. That would be a wonderful addition to the Drawings pages if we could get it.

In other things if an item becomes sufficiently valuable and in demand, it becomes worthwhile for someone to make it. At the prices I'm hearing about, it seems like we are reaching that point. A cottage industry for Atlas Mill accessories and parts could develop...

Froggie

 

[frank r]

I have a nice little vise, about 3" wide, that is attached to a heavy 90 degree cast iron fixture from a grinder. One of these days I am going to set that vise up in a band saw and cut through that casting to release the vise. Milling the bottom will give me a nice vise for an Atlas mill. It even rotates.

 

[wa5cab]

I wouldn't call them detailed but the photos of the system that I missed on eBay would suffice to make a copy I think. Unfortunately, I didn't download them.