Dixi Milling & Jig Spotting Machines page 3


	email: t ony@lathes.co.uk Home Machine Tool Archive Machine-tools Sal e & Wanted Machine Tool Manuals Catalogues Belts Books Accessories Dixi Page 3 Precision "Milling" & Jig-spotting Machine Dixi Home Page Dixi Page 2 Dixi Page 3 Dixi Page 4 Dixi Page 5 Dixi Page 6 Dixi Lathe This wonderfully original and well-cared-for Dixi, almost certainly constructed as a machine for production work, was fitted with a vertical table to carry a spindle-holding unit that could be moved from vertical to horizontal. By adding a right-angle table, with a horizontal T-slotted top surface, the present owner has turned it into a far more adaptable and useful precision milling machine. Continued

A version of the Dix able to perform in horizontal and vertical modes and equipped with a swivelling table and quick-release spindle unit

The standard machine with the head mounted on a vertical attachment

Lever-feed head mounted on the horizontal adaptor. Note the ingenious means by which the leverage was applied without the need for an over-long handle.

Another view of the head's lever mechanism and micrometer stop

Both head and spindle carrier mounted horizontally

Another view of head and spindle carrier set horizontally

Head set horizontally and the spindle carrier set vertically

A spindle locked into the carrier


	The lower end of the spindle was machined to accept an indexing plate - the indexing lever (complete with an extension to apply pressure) carrying a hardened V-shaped plunger that could be adjusted to a perfect fit.

An long "angle bracket" could be fixed to the top of the column in order to mount the head vertically

Vertical adaptor

Side view showing the vertical unit in place

Dixi adapted with a well-made, home-constructed horizontal table allowing it to be used for conventional milling

Vertical adaptor with the head set to its highest position. Note how the countershaft system has been cleverly arranged so that, even at the extreme setting, it still provides an effective drive


	Close-up view of the spindle holder

Vertical feed was by lever, the table being lifted and then dropped onto one of three stops held in revolving turret


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