Pillar Drill /Mill Machine Advice

Gérard Baudoin said:
Hello! I have recently bought in second hand a Proxxon F70 to drill and cut trough 6 (2x3) Mms of aluminium. I have still a lot to learn, but it works pretty good and ,with petrol lubricant, straight and fine.
a K-27 Mikado from Baldwin is on the bench.
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Its difficult to see, are you using the Proxxon purely as a drill or as a mill machine?

David
 
DafyddElvy said:
Its difficult to see, are you using the Proxxon purely as a drill or as a mill machine?

David
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I Use the both fonctions with a drill Proxxon N° 28 761 " Multi purpose tungsten carbide miller" . I have 1 & 2 & 3 Millimètres miller. When I began, I tried to drill some holes with a Simple Pillar drill and then cut with the miller from hole to hole.
But it was very difficult to be right in the aimed hole and I had to finish by hand with a metal file .... beurk!!!.
In a second time I made a design on the aluminium plate with a fin cutter and then used the miller as a plunging one (very slowly) with an eye on the depth: I have milled my vice too!!
I use a brush with petrol... to clean and lubricate the job: I'll try some professionnel cutting oil.
Well, I'am just discovering the miller, Thanks for listening my poor "queen scholar English"!
Gérard.
 
PhilP said:
For the small amount you use..
A bottle of Liquid Paraffin, from a Pharmacy, should suffice?

PhilP
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Phil, liquid paraffin is not the same as paraffin used in heaters.
 
I've always used white spirit; it is fractionally less oily, but still prevents aluminium build-up on the cutting edge, which is the main purpose when cutting ally. Whichever lubricant you use, make sure you oil the slides afterwards -turpentine/paraffin strips the oil from them.
 
DafyddElvy said:
Use whiskey if you must, but never a good whisky, that's a punishable crime.

David
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I hate whisky and I think that it is an abomination. I feel that it is my lifelong task to drink as much of it as I can, so that no other poor souls have to.:p.
So sorry for the thread drift.
 
Greg Elmassian said:
I saw in another post that there was a limitation on purchasing automotive fuel (we call gasoline).... is there some sort of rationing going on there?
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My car is a gazolin motor ( 2 liters, 180 HP) and there is no problem to find "petrol" in France, even if some people try to militate the use. Gérard
 
Greg Elmassian said:
I saw in another post that there was a limitation on purchasing automotive fuel (we call gasoline).... is there some sort of rationing going on there?
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Sort of. Allegedly stocks are adequate but there are delivery problems. This has resulted in increased demand at the petrol stations so they run out faster.
As I have a couple of appointments at a hospital about 20 miles away within the next few days I admit to joining a queue today and filling up when I had an opportunity.

www.bbc.co.uk

Petrol shortage: Is the fuel crisis improving?

Only 127 fuel drivers from the EU have applied for the temporary visas designed to tackle the crisis.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Greg Elmassian said:
I saw in another post that there was a limitation on purchasing automotive fuel (we call gasoline).... is there some sort of rationing going on there?
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The press mentioned that a couple of BP petrol stations had run out of fuel, this made a few idiots panic, which had the obvious domino effect. Now we all have to queue. It's very odd, but this crisis doesn't seemed to have lessened the amount of traffic.
 
JimmyB said:
Casey, don't misunderstand me, I have a Dremel and think it is great (especially after a cheap alternative I had), but it can be limiting with a 3mm maximum chuck size.
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It certainly is a limiting factor Jimmy. But I find that for most of my modelling it does the job. I wouldn’t be without my Dremels.
 
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