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Les Symonds:

--- Quote from: Tim Pettigrew on April 27, 2019, 04:04:42 PM ---I have been using one of these mills made in Scotland and for sale on Ebay.  CLICK HERE for details.   Cost is 82.98 GBP (including UK delivery).  It's a good piece of kit.

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Hi Tim...that looks a bargain, of which I'm often sceptical, so it's good to hear that it's working well. What size saw and what chain are you using with this?

Les

Tim Pettigrew:

--- Quote from: Les Symonds on April 27, 2019, 04:21:45 PM ---
Hi Tim...that looks a bargain, of which I'm often sceptical, so it's good to hear that it's working well. What size saw and what chain are you using with this?

Les

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OK, as a home-based hobby turner my neighbours would object to the noise made by a petrol chainsaw so I have built a jig to use the mill with an Oregon CS1500 2.4kw electric chainsaw (18" chainsaw bar fitted as standard). I haven't a photo so have attached the scale drawing of the jig which I used to build it.  Basically the Mill is attached to a cradle which runs on rails with furniture castors.  It works OK for small scale milling for making woodturning blanks, but for serious large-scale milling a petrol chainsaw would be essential.  The chain is Oregon Powersharp and uses a sharpening jig built into the chainsaw.  However, the saw can also be used with any Lo Pro ⅜" chain (including ripping chain) as long as the the built-in sharpener (which only works with the Powersharp chain), is temporarily removed.  I built this to deal with boles in excess of 8" diameter which is the maximum depth of cut of my Record BS300 Bandsaw.

Note that my jig would be equally valid (and would work better) with a petrol saw.  A detailed drawing of the jig can be viewed HERE (will take a few minutes to load!).

I am intending to post an operational video of this setup (with the Oregon CS1500, which is an excellent saw by the way) in due course.

Hope this helps

Tim

Les Symonds:
Many thanks, Tim....that's a very interesting set-up.
Les

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