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So I picked up a Rockwell vertical mill a few weeks ago and have been working on getting it back together. I've been mostly cleaning and painting, but I've had to make some parts for the micrometer dials and handwheels as well as one bearing holder. The machine is coming together nicely and so far I have no major complaints. The guy I bought it from had mentioned something about metric dials on it but I didnt pay much attention. Well, anyway to make a long story short, at some point in the machines life someone decided it would be a good idea to machine down all of the handwheels on the machine to fit these weirdo half metric, half american dials on it. So now I want to put the original style dials on and they didnt fit. Ive been making bushings the last few days to bring the handwheels back to life. I was lucky and found dials for it. I also had to make a bearing holder for one of the screws which was actually a fairly smooth process. I am hoping to have the table all mounted up and working tomorrow and then it's on to the head! In the first picture below, the weird metric dial and handwheel is on the left. An original handwheel and original dials are on the right. You can see how much they machines off the handwheels to get the strange dials to fit. Has anyone seen these type of metric/ american dials before?
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