Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

The over-arm might be very useful if you want to try gear hobbing.

(even easier if the table swings, but you can fake that with CNC)

Good idea.
I think I am the worlds slowest electrician.


Or maybe the most easily distracted, as yesterday I dragged out the furnace and case hardened a tool stop for the Clarkson radius grinding attachment.
Mark

Wiring takes a lot of time, like a lot !
Still worth it at the end.
Regards,
Tom

Hi Mark
Tis good that you are enjoying the summer time, Did the Maho slotter come with a tool holder? Have you got the overarm an slotter home yet ? I hope to see some show an tell on that slotter. Wondering if you have considered getting a Maho rotary table or doing something like Mr MullerNick or Mr Andy P did for a rotary axis ?
About the time you were doing the grocery store run ,I was dragging home a K O Lee -BA960- universal tool an cutter grinder. It is non tilt head - high speed spindle ( 3450 to 17,250RPM) - motorized variable speed workhead + other stuff and thinges. But ,No as in not included radius attachment ! What is it with the used T&C grinder sales committee ?

Be glad that I am not your neighbour, but I wish my neighbourhood had people like you .
Bob

Bob, that looks like an excellent score. That K&O looks very similar to my friends TOS BN-102 , which replaced the Clarkson he sold to me. T&C grinders are an excellent time waster. You can produce extremely accurate swarf with them, so small it looks like dust.

Unfortunately the slotting head and overarm have no tooling. I haven't got them home yet, as a relative of my wife lives two blocks from the seller in Tirol, and picked it up for me. His daughter studies in Vienna, so he will deliver it to me when he next comes this way. Saves me eight hours of driving.

I have a little taiwanese made 6" rotary table, and have visions of a CNC rotary table for the MAHO, but so far my six pack of self medication have kept the visions under control. I like the way you through out that little tidbit about a magical Müllernick rotary table for me to now obsessively comb the internet for

I say Andy Pugh's Holbrook blog thread (excellent work) and the video of the cycloidal rotary table design, but didn't know it had been made.
Mark

RotarySMP wrote: I have a little taiwanese made 6" rotary table, and have visions of a CNC rotary table for the MAHO,

You probably don't need a rotary table on a CNC mill as you can generally get the same effect with coordinated motion.

But an A-axis is likely to be useful for some jobs.

I think that this is the A-axis that Bob is referring to. (It isn't based on the cycloidal design but on a commercial harmonic drive)