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E-MAIL tony@lathes.co.uk Handbooks and Parts Lists are available for most Bridgeport machines Milling & Drilling Heads Cherrying & Slotting Heads Head Attachments Head Adaptors Hydraulic Copying, NC and other Special Machines The Bridgeport Horizontal miller was not made as a commercial undertaking (only one is thought to have been sold out of the three manufactured) but used in the factory for various production processes. The machine was, for its limited capacity, very heavily built but absolutely straightforward in design, being rather like a giant vertical head set on its back face. The miller was completely self-contained having a motor in the base that drove to the horizontal spindle through (it is thought), a 5-step V-belt pulley. The spindle was of the stub type, entirely unsupported and obviously intended for the simplest of operations. The table had lever feeds for the x and Y feeds, an ideal arrangement for production processes such as slotting. |
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