Archdale Drill Manual British
The M2-type HSS drills with a helix angle of 27were sharpened on an Archdale drill. In manual sharpening this drill geometry was. British Standards. Maintenance and Operating Manual (two Manuals. £55 MA661L ARCHDALE Twist Drill. And Maintenance Manual. £45 MB540B BRITISH.
Founded in 1868 by James Archdale, by 1917 the Company was making (or had made, like most of its competitors) a wide variety of machine tools, including drills, milling machine, shapers, planers,borers, lathes, hand and power presses and the usual miscellany of general engineering equipment such as surface plates and cutters. They could also set up manufacturing plants, make one-off machine tools and undertake commissions to develop patents and improvements for other makers. After 1917, and almost certainly under pressure to delivery on Government contracts as WW1 came to its climax, they concentrated solely on milling machines and radial-arm and conventional drilling machines. With their head office and 'Manchester Works' originally in Ledsam Street,, after WW2 a move was made to a new factory in Blackpole, Worcestershire. Archdale never gave their milling machines model numbers or names, simply designating them by their function and table travel - the 18' High-speed vertical Milling Machine; 24' Production Milling machine and Heavy-duty Hydraulic Control Full Pre-select Radial Drilling Machines 5' 0' to 12' 0' being typical examples. The pictures below are from a 1952 catalogue - one that was unusual for the time in having a number of full-colour illustrations.
For an Archdale. Archdale Full-range Catalogue Circa 1930: Radial-Arm drills, Heavy-duty drills, Production drills, Multi-head drills, All-gear Drills, Sensitive Universal Adjustable Multi-spindle Drills, Medium and Heavy-duty Type Universal Multi-spindle Drills, Hydraulic Multi spindle drills, 6-spindle cylinder boring machine, 4-spindle Fixed centre Hydraulic Cylinder Boring Machine, 74-spindle Vertical Hydraulic Drill, Automatic Cam Feed Unit Drilling Machines, Duplex Hydraulic Piston Drilling & Reaming Machines, 18-inch, 20-inch, 28-inch, horizontal Milling Machines, 24-inch Automatic production Mil.
Dich Teure Halle Wagner Pdf Files here. Definitely looks like a nice machine. I have a 4ft/11' column Fosdick at home and a 5ft 9' column G&L Bickford at work. The difference in the column diameter on rigidity is very noticeable. Only thing I question is why they put the camelback of the arm underhung? Seems it would be more in the way than the typical US version, which puts the camelback on top of the arm, up out of the way of the spindle.