Mill training

This is reference material for people interested in using our mill. This material is collected here in order to assist a workshop on using the mill as well as for people to teach themselves how to use this machine.

Mill Info Diagram

Mill Oiling Chart

Reading Material

This is a scan of two chapters from the book Machining Fundamentals on mills. This is a highly illustrated book with lots of different mill configurations and ways of using a mill.

• Machining_Fundamentals-Mill-chapters_17+18.pdf.zip (128MB)

Here are some scans from an older book called the "Metal Working Handbook". I recommend reading the chapter on Measuring Tools at least:

• MetalWorkingHandbook-MeasuringTools-chapter2.pdf.zip
• MetalWorkingHandbook-MillingMachines-chapter13+14.pdf.zip

This site has some more reading material on using mills:

• http://jjjtrain.com/vms/library.html

Supplementary books

• Machinery's Handbook Pocket Companion

Videos

We have a set of training videos physically in Bloominglabs for the official machining workshop.

However in the mean-time if you are waiting to take the machining workshop, these MIT training videos are a reasonable introduction to the mill. They are part of a 10 video series on machine tools, these are the lathe videos from this series. They each are about 45 minutes in length.

• [1] - MIT video 1 for the mill
• [2] - MIT video 2 for the mill
• [3] - MIT video 3 for the mill
• [4] - MIT video 4 for the mill

• [5] - A good video on selecting endmills and how to determine speeds to run at

More videos:

• [6] - A listing of milling videos from archive.org

Replacement Shop Posters and Oiling Charts

Each machine tool station should have a poster board with a detailed oiling chart for the machine and a decimal/millimeter conversion chart among posters. If a machine tool like the lathe or mill is missing necessary posters they should all be available from the Signage page/category on this wiki for re-printing.