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I did some searching and couldn't really find much in the way of a good answer on this. For background, I've got a Bridgeport 2J 2HP vertical mill and a K&T 2H Plain horizontal mill for bigger stuff, so this is just an idea I'm kicking around.
I recently bought a beautiful Sheldon No. 0 horizontal mill that has seen almost no use. It came from a university machine shop school and was barely used...not a mark on the table and just a bit of dried cutting oil to clean off. I didn't need it, but it was close and so cheap I couldn't pass on it. I've got some ideas that would require making some gears, and I don't have a dividing head, but nothing I'm ready to start on just yet. I've been looking off and on at bigger dividing heads for the K&T but then a thought popped in my head that I could essentially set up the Sheldon for making gears and leave the dividing head on it semi-permanently. The table is 22" by 5.25", so pretty small. I think that would limit me to a BS-0 size dividing head. I looked at the old Sheldon catalogs, but really couldn't get an idea of the size they listed as an accessory for this mill. I don't envision a need to make particularly large gears at this point, so I don't think the mill's size will be a factor.
Has anybody here used a combo like this? Since everybody loves pictures, here are a few pics of the Sheldon after nothing but a quick wipe down when I got it home. Since then I've started to clean off the cutting oil and it's amazing how nice this thing is!
I recently bought a beautiful Sheldon No. 0 horizontal mill that has seen almost no use. It came from a university machine shop school and was barely used...not a mark on the table and just a bit of dried cutting oil to clean off. I didn't need it, but it was close and so cheap I couldn't pass on it. I've got some ideas that would require making some gears, and I don't have a dividing head, but nothing I'm ready to start on just yet. I've been looking off and on at bigger dividing heads for the K&T but then a thought popped in my head that I could essentially set up the Sheldon for making gears and leave the dividing head on it semi-permanently. The table is 22" by 5.25", so pretty small. I think that would limit me to a BS-0 size dividing head. I looked at the old Sheldon catalogs, but really couldn't get an idea of the size they listed as an accessory for this mill. I don't envision a need to make particularly large gears at this point, so I don't think the mill's size will be a factor.
Has anybody here used a combo like this? Since everybody loves pictures, here are a few pics of the Sheldon after nothing but a quick wipe down when I got it home. Since then I've started to clean off the cutting oil and it's amazing how nice this thing is!