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How to make a table for a milling mill. Reliable milling table with their own hands. Video: Production of milling table with their own hands

For people associated with carpentry, the milling table is an indispensable assistant. It will help to raise the quality of the work performed, their effectiveness.

Industry offers such tables in the factory execution, but not everyone fits their cost. We suggest considering the milling table made by your own hands, without expensive component materials.

Determination of the milling table, its design

The device with which you can perform: grooves in the workpiece, grooves, make spike connections, process the edges of the products, are called a milling table. Separately, the milling mill is inconvenient, the master will have to focus on the workpiece and simultaneously on processing. The milling table, its own hands assembled, facilitates the work process, it can be mounted on a working workbench or to make a special design under it.

Important! Performing work on the manufacture of a specialized table must be remembered that the milling mill is installed below, free space should be allocated for it. The stationary part of any table is the bed, it is a strong frame with a tabletop.

Material for carcass Milling table can be:

  1. Wooden timber.
  2. Metal squares.
  3. Plates: MDF, chipboard.

The requirement for the framework is the creation of stability for the table top and the stiffness of the structure. When the milling table is manufactured with their own hands, the overall parameters of the bed are determined from materials that require processing.

How to make a bed for milling machine

Despite the simplicity of the framework of the frame for the table top, the homemade milling machine should be done for proper operation meet requirements:

In the design of the table enters mounting plate, It is needed for fastening the mill.

How to make a mounting plate

There are mounting plate in the place of fastening the soles of the mill. For its manufacture, the material that meets the criteria is selected:

  • Strength.
  • Thickness - the thinner, the better.

Specialists are recommended for independent manufacture of the mounting plate of the milling machine to use sheet metal, can fiberglass or textolit. Overall dimensions of a rectangular shape, thickness within from 4 millimeters to 8 millimeters. In the center of the plate, it is necessary to make a hole, which is suitable for a diameter with a hole on the sole of the hand mill.

The milling mill is equipped with a plastic overlay, which is attached to the threaded holes on the sole, these holes are used to mount it to the mounting plate. If there are no such holes, they must be made in the sole of the mill. Another method of fastening the milling ager is also offered, it is metal-springs from metal. Mounting plate attached to the tabletop at the corners.

Instructions for assembling milling table with their own hands

To assemble the clamping device, rollers are used or a ball bearing of the desired diameter. It is attached in the holding device, which is rigidly attached at the desired distance from the table top plane.

This device provides a dense pressing of the overall billet to the table top plane when it passes under the roller. This simple addition increases the accuracy of the work carried out, the safety of labor is improved.

It is possible to collect a functional milling table when the master has an electrical drive information that will be used in operation. Consider the power parameter To select an electrical drive:

Important! Specialists are recommended before assembling milling machine to determine the power of the milling ager, it there should be no less than 2 kW. This power allows the wizard to work with any wood. Selects the models of milling mills with rotation revolutions. The revolutions rotation of the milling is very important to obtain a flat cut on the workpiece. If this parameter is high, the slice will be clean.

Safe use of milling table

When the milling table is assembled and the electrical drive is installed, do not rush to check it immediately in operation, make sure that the work performed is correct. What is recommended to do experts for secure work On the milling table:

  • It is advisable to install a protective screen on the table top, it can be your own design or an industrial sample.
  • Be sure to check for the emergency button to stop the electrical equipment, it should be in the form of "fungus" and located in the zone of the wizard, so that it is possible to press it with the body body.
  • Equip the working area with light illumination.
  • When the milling table is used for frequent shifts of the cutter to perform work, it is recommended to equip it with an automatic cutter lifting device.

In the equipping of a homemade milling table no restrictions, the requirement for them is one thing: an increase in the safety and effectiveness of the work carried out.

Usually to perform some new works, new tools are required. As a programmer, it is familiar to me well, since for many years for each new task you have to create libraries and write utilities. These are the very tools with which the solution of the following tasks becomes easier and easier. Probably so in many areas, except for those where you have to create everything from scratch using only knowledge and skills. (Maybe I don't really like it, for example, draw that you used to use former developments).

Finally, I finished my milling table. (On the creation of 7 evenings). At first I thought to buy ready, but those that I found for the available money and suitable for my work - I was not satisfied at all. And I decided to do it myself at that hand mill, which I had Caliber FE-650E.

Milling table - very useful needleworking tool. I used to somehow not much thought about it, but if you look around in any house around, you can see many items that have been treated on the milling table: window frames, furniture doors, frames for paintings, wooden plinths, door cortic, lining, and so on.

First, as usual, modeled in a 3D program. I did not copy someone's table, but developed a model for myself, after seeing a bunch of ready-made such milling tables in the internet. The idea is common, the essence of one, the details are different, because Each implements under itself, using what is and what is capable of.

The side emphasis has groceries and can move back and forth and fixed in the desired position with two lamb. The corner will be connected to the chips. (The milling mill gives a lot of chips) if it is required - the side stop can be easily removed and put other devices instead or not to put anything at all.

The emphasis has two sash, which can be moved and move depending on the size of the cutter. The position of each sash is fixed with lamb.

An ordinary vacuum cleaner hose is connected to the chips.


This mill model has no fine depth adjustment. It was necessary to put pressure on the mill and catch the desired depication depth. (It should be noted that it is terribly inconvenient. I have to suffer several times by rearing the depth to get into the right one)

Moved the face, adding the so-called "elevator".

He drilled the bed and installed an adjusting screw with a high nut (in the picture in the center). Spinning nut, you can smoothly adjust the depth.


So the depth is configured: the desired value is set on the kitchen, and the key rises to the cutter until it stops into the square.

The only remaining inconvenience - for this procedure requires two hands. You need to press the depth of the depth of the depth of the mill and another to twist the nut. I have a solution, but until I have time to realize. When I do - you can adjust the depth one hand. And the clamp to hold the corner will not be needed.

Please note that the upper part of the side stop is specifically designed to attach various devices to it.

In general, there are ready-made platforms for the manufacture of milling tables. There are holes with holes for some specific models of the freesome, there are universal, in which you can drill holes under your model yourself. The platforms are fairly expensive (1500-5000r) and size is much larger than required for my mini-table.

The platform for the milling was made of plexiglas (6mm), removing the native plastic platform from the milling bed.

Fit glass under the window.

First samples.

The stand under cutters is treated with a cutter that on the left. I also handled the planks

By the way, the cutter with a roller does not require lateral stop. Such can be treated by the edges on the bare table, although it is more convenient to have another point of stop to have, especially when processing cylindrical blanks.

What can I get to finish:
- Cut a pair of glasses to install a cutter cutter.
- Make the presser fixtures that are installed on the side stop and the worktop, providing a dense clamping of the workpiece to the mill.
- Improve the convenient key that regulates the depth of the cutter.
- Promotion limiters (on lateral emphasis).
- Special pushers footpads for the workpiece (milling mill - dangerous tool. If I seriously damage my hands - it will be especially bad for me, because I will not be able to play on most musical instruments after that).
- Special focus for working with edge mills.
- Corner stop with a transporter, device allows you to move the workpiece at a certain angle using the rail.
- Salazks for filing a blank on the table at a right angle.
- Device for cutting "box connections".
- Pull trap container for chips. (Native bag of vacuum cleaner is very quickly clogged)
- Well, and some more little things.

I hope that this post will find those to whom it can be useful.

Other interesting posts about my homemade tools:



In search of a worthy answer to the discomfort, which occurs when working with a manual milling tool, the owners of homely joinery come to the need to buy a convenient milling table.

Simpique User forumhouse.

About the table was thinking for a long time. Especially after manually completedrest 22 m fence.

A purchase option may be expensive, the dimensions of the machine collected in production conditions do not correspond to the size of a small domestic workshop. The optimal solution in this case will be an independent assembly of the milling table.

Those who want to make a homemade milling machine will find in the relevant section forumhouse.

How to make a milling table

A homemade milling table is the simplest. The main work unit in it is a manual milling machine. Working with manual power tool implies the movement of the working cutter over the surface of the stationary workpiece (which is far from always convenient). The milling table for the manual tool allows you to change the processing method and milling a lightweight method: the hand tool is fixed on the desktop still, and the processed billet is easily supplied to the milling hand.

A homemade milling table is the simplest wood processing. The main work unit in it is a manual milling machine. Working with manual power tool implies the movement of the working cutter over the surface of the stationary workpiece (which is far from always convenient). The milling table for the manual tool allows you to change the processing method and milling a lightweight method: the hand tool is fixed on the desktop still, and the processed billet is easily supplied to the milling hand.

the milling table for manual milling consists of basic and additional elements. Additional elements are not required, but their use allows you to maximally make it easier for the masters, make the design of the device more secure, and the functionality is approximate to the capabilities of serial installations.

Universal Milling Table: Basic design elements

The main elements of the milling table are indicated in the figure.

AIB User Forumhouse, Moscow.

Very needed a mobile milling table. He welded the frame, painted and collected the design.

The dimensions of the milling table are dependent on the dimensions of the parts being processed, as well as on the growth of the wizard itself. The length and width should be slightly less than the table top, and the height of the bed is 850 ... 900 mm, which corresponds to the most comfortable working conditions for standing. The legs of the homemake can be made adjustable, which will allow compensate for the unevenness of the floor or change the height of the bed.

Countertop for Mill

Countertop dimensions depend on the size of the parts being processed.

dautov. User forumhouse.

In the home workshop, a small table is 500x500 mm.

For processing relatively long details (for profiling edges on door platbands), the tabletop of the corresponding dimensions will be needed. We look at the drawing:

For the manufacture of the bed, wood-based materials are most often used, which can effectively extinguish emerging vibrations. It can be a worktop of chipboard, which is used in the manufacture of kitchen furniture or a thick plywood sheet. Here, for example, a tabletop of a screaming of the chipboard formed after the installation of the kitchen sink.

KROTT64. User forumhouse.

On this trimming countertops, after simple refinement, you can do quite decent things.

Someone makes a metal countertop, someone from the edged board, but, as practice shows, chipboard and plywood - always in priority.

ORFO74 User forumhouse.

If I do, then from laminated plywood (I have such a trailer). There were already hundreds of thousands of kilometers under the heat and under the "minus." She was not spoiled neither salt nor rain. And still you can use, but you need to collect either in 2 layers, or to make a simple plywood.

For the manufacture of table tops, it is impossible to use the material on the surface of which there are defects (knocked boards, etc.).

Mounting plate under hand mill

To the mounting plate using threaded connections, a manual milling is mounted. Therefore, it is necessary to refer to its manufacture. The material from which the plate will be made should be strong enough so that the milling machine does not break during operation (the consequences can be imagined). This may be a rectangle made of metallic or plywood sheet (but the metal is more reliable).

Alekx User forumhouse.

The powerful car is a lot of duries. And if it turns out of the table while working It will not seem little.

DGUSEPE User forumhouse.

The legs can be wooden, but it is advisable to make a metal table top 3 mm. For maximum raising cutters.

The length and width of the mounting plate must correspond to the size of the soles of the manual millingrer, with which the power tool will be attached to the table.

Longitudinal stop for the workpiece

The longitudinal focus can be made from a regular chipboard sheet or cutting board. The stop must be made mobile to ensure the ability to adjust the horizontal departure of the cutter. For more accurate adjustments on the sides of the table top, you can attach measuring rules.

The design of the fixing mechanism, which allows to consolidate the longitudinal focus in the desired position, is extremely simple. It can consist of two racks with through longitudinal grooves and of two threaded locks with lamb.

Instead of the RECEK, you can use two metal corners, which will last longer and will not be deformed under the action of the clamps.

In order for dust and chips to interfere with work, the longitudinal focus is desirable to equip the dust collector to which the chips and a small joinery vacuum cleaner connects.

The longitudinal focus can be done double, which significantly expands the functionality of the milling table.

Superkuzen. User forumhouse.

The monolithic emphasis deprives the possibility of carrying out the mass of operations performed on the milling table, that is, makes a table in a little functional.

The milling table can perform the functions of a small fugovine machine, if between two half of the longitudinal stop organize the adjustable drop of the working planes. This design allows you to shift one half of the stop relative to the other, exposing one focus flush with a cutter with thin wooden plates. Adjustable plates are underlined under the non-working surface of the stop.

Manual milling machine

From the technical characteristics of the hand tool (power, the number of revolutions per minute, etc.) will directly depend on the performance of the milling table. Select the milling table for the milling table, based on the intended load. The added functionality of the machine will be an additional plus for the wizard. If you still do not have a manual millingrer, then choose a tool with adjustable rotational speed of the cutter and with the possibility of setting the depth of processing (submersible milling mills). Very easy to handle the spindle lock (for easy replacement of the cutting tool), as well as devices with a smooth start and fast spindle stop.

We reviewed the basic elements of the milling table, which will allow the owner to perform the simplest milling operations. In order to expand the device functionality, make it universal and increase operational safety, it is necessary to take care of the presence of additional devices. Consider the most common of them.

Longitudinal guide for movable milling carriage

With the help of a longitudinal guide, built into the surface of the table top, you can install a variety of devices to the milling table: the corner stop with the transporter, perpendicular focus, and so on.

The longitudinal guide may have a different design, but most often it is an aluminum C-shaped profile in which the bolts are inserted with lamb nuts. This design allows you to quickly install the required fixture on the milling table.

By the way, using a C-shaped profile you can fix on the tabletop and a longitudinal adjustable emphasis.

Vertical presser

Upper clamp increases safety when working on a homemade fresher and increases the processing accuracy. Its fastening can be implemented by the type of fixators for the mobile carriage.

If you plan to make the milling table with your own hands, the video about the universal carpentry workshop device for personal use will help you with this.

Elevator for Freser

Vertical departure cutters very often have to regulate. To perform this adjustment, a milling elevator is provided - adjustable emphasis, which allows you to maintain a milling machine at a given height and, if necessary, quickly change this height.

The milling elevator is advisable to use complete with immersion milling machines. Their design initially has guides to adjust the departure of the cutter (as opposed to machines with a fixed engine).

A lifting elevator for a homemade milling mill may have different designs.

Elevator from the car jack

To create a lifting mechanism, you can use the old car jack.

leon42. User forumhouse.

The elevator can be made from the car jack: under the rod milling, the rod is attached to the shelf. Ground jack - the mill rises or lowers.

For convenience, the jack handle can be derived for the side wall of the bed. This will greatly facilitate the adjustment.

Threaded Elevator Based

Blackk. User forumhouse.

The corner with the threaded pin is screwed to the protrusion on the millingreres, to which the measuring pin is attached in the standard mode. In the corner for the threaded stud sliced \u200b\u200ba thread. Rotating the hairpin, we seem to be screwed into the corner and pull the entire milling mill upwards. Accordingly, when rotating back - the mill is lowered.

The mechanism consists of a wooden wedge (pos. 1), in which the through hole is drilled (pos. 2). Thanks to metal platforms (pos. 3), attached on the sides of the wedge and having threaded holes, the wedge moves in a horizontal plane, lifting or lowering the milling machine. The handle of the lifting mechanism is removed on the side surface of the bed. To reduce the load during the lifting, the milling machine is equipped with a homemade roller (pos. 4).

Turning on and off the milling table

All necessary equipment for the electrical part of the milling table is already provided in the design of the milling machine. The only thing that can be added to the existing electrical circuit is a remote switch and an emergency shutdown button (after all, no one has canceled security during operation).

Switch for the milling driver can be used the most ordinary one. As for the possibility of a quick shutdown: it can be implemented by setting the alarm button to the table with the fixation mechanism (in which unlocking is carried out by turning).

Collection of table.

The main and auxiliary elements of the milling table we listed. The procedure for assembling the device Each master can determine for itself. The only moment on which attention should be paid is the manufacture and installation of the mounting plate.

Once a plate of suitable size is cut out of steel (or plywood) sheet, it is necessary to drill the holes for fastening the milling machine, the hole under the cutter (its diameter must correspond to the diameter of the hole in the sole of the mill) and the mounting holes (for mounting the plate to the tabletop) .

What instruments need to have in their carpentry or furniture workshop. And the video about the design of the self-made milling table and the features of the joinery power tool will help you find answers to questions regarding equipment that is extremely rarely used in a small homemade workshop.

The milling table allows you to significantly increase the efficiency and productivity of work. A variety of models for a wide variety of hand mills are available on sale. However, the price of finished products is very overestimated. It is much more profitable and more interesting to collect the table with your own hands. No expensive materials and complex tools for this will not be needed.

General information about the design of the milling table

The milling table can be installed on the working workbench or a specially assembled separate table. The product must have a tough design and good stability, because When working will be created very tangible vibration. Be sure to take into account the fact that the installation of the mill will be completed from the bottom of the table top and it should not interfere with it. No additional elements are installed there.

The design of the homemade table provides for the presence of a mounting plate, due to which the milling machine will be attached directly to the table. To create a plate, use a durable high quality material: Phaneur, Textolite, Metal Sheet, and the like.

From above, the countertops are created sample under the plate. The plate is directly fixed using self-tapping screws with a hidden head. The milling mill is fixed with screws with the same hidden head. Additional fixation of the plate can be performed using the presses.

To conveniently turn on the milling mill on the table, the button is fixed. Additionally, it is recommended to set the emergency button to turn off the type of fungus. If you have to work with large blanks, equip the table with upper clamping devices. For even greater convenience and accuracy, the table is equipped with a ruler.

For self-assembly of the milling table, you will need the following tools:

  1. Electric jigsaw. In the absence, you can do with hacksaw.
  2. Plane. Preferably electric.
  3. Chisel.
  4. Grinders. In the absence, you can do Bru with a sandpaper, but processing with their help will require more time and effort.
  5. Screwdriver or drill with a screwdriver function.
  6. Electrode with a set of drills.

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Start of the table assembly

Explore your workshop and select a place to install the future milling table. Determine the most suitable design of the product. Tables are:

  1. Aggregate. In essence, the lateral expansion of the standard saw table.
  2. Portable. A very convenient and ergonomic desktop version.
  3. Stationary. It is installed separately and is assembled purposefully for the mill.

If your milling table is used infrequently, or you have to work outside the workshop, give a choice in favor of the portable option. If there is enough space, make a separate table. For more convenience, it can be equipped with wheels that will allow you to "move" to another place if necessary.

You can collect a small size design and install it on an ordinary table. You can take the chipboard of the appropriate size and install the guide on it. The guide in this case is a board of a relatively small thickness, fixed using bolts.

Take 2 clamps. Make a hole under the cutter. This basic work will be completed. However, if the machine is your main working tool, it is necessary to approach the process more thoroughly and create a convenient and reliable table, which will be comfortable to spend time.

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Preparation of bed and countertops

The bed is the stationary part of any milling table. In essence, it is a frame on the supports with a tabletop from above. The material of the frame of special significance does not have. Fits wood, metal, chipboard, MDF. The main thing is to ensure the required rigidity and maximum stability. The sizes of the beds are also not critical. Pick them in view of what kind of materials you most often have to process.

The lower part of the bed must be deepened by 10-20 cm in relation to the front skeleton. Dimensions, as already noted, choose your needs. For example, to process the ends of the billets of the facades and the door pads, it is possible to make a five-width of 150 cm wide, a height of 90 cm, a depth of 50 cm.

Very important characteristic in this case is the height. The optimal is considered to be at 85-90 cm. Well, if you can equip the bed with adjustable supports. They will allow compensate for the unevenness of the floor surface and change the height of the milling table in the event of such a need.

For the manufacture of homemade tables, you can take an ordinary kitchen countertop from chipboard. A stove is used with a thickness of 26 or 36 mm with a wear-resistant plastic coating. Thanks to the plastic, the workpiece will well slide on the tabletop, and the chipboard will take the task of repayment of vibration. In the extreme case, you can use LDSP or MDF with a thickness of at least 16 mm.

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What you need to know about the mounting plate?

Next to the place of fastening the soles of the milling is sure to fix the mounting plate. The best is considered durable and at the same time with this thin material. Most often used sheet metal. A more convenient and no less durable option is the textolite (fiberglass). This is usually a rectangular plate with a thickness of 4-8 mm. In the center of such a plate it is necessary to prepare a hole. Its diameter should be the same with the diameter of the hole in the sole of the mill.

The sole of the milling is usually equipped with regular threaded holes needed to secure a plastic lining. Thanks to these holes, the milling mill is fixed to the mounting plate. With the original absence of holes, make them yourself. You can use another method of fastening the milling ager, for example, metal brackets. Holes for fixing the plate are created closer to its corners.

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Step-by-step table assembly instructions

First you need to secure the worktop to the finished bed. A plate is put on the pre-selected place on the table top. Pencil is taken and its contours are shown. Next, you need to take a manual milling mill with a cutter by 6-10 mm and choose a seat in the table top for the mounting plate. It should lie flush, i.e. Make a perfectly smooth surface with a tabletop, as if a single integer.

The landing place should be slightly rounded corners. You can round them with a file. After adding a mounting plate, take the mill thick, slightly exceeding the thickness of the table top, and make through holes in the tabletop exactly in the form of the soles of the mill. You can not really try, the ideal accuracy at this stage is not required. From the bottom of the table top you need to make an additional sample for the casing of the dust collector and other devices that you plan to equip your milling table.

The work is almost completed, you only need to collect everything into a single product. Get the milling mill from below and screw it to the plate. Secure the plate to the tabletop with self-draws. Self-tapping caps need to be drowning, otherwise they will interfere in the process of performing work. Finally screw the table top to the bed.

In order to improve convenience and security, you can equip the design by the upper clamping roller device. Such an addition would be especially useful when performing the processing of large-sized blanks, for example, door linings. The design of the clips does not have any complex elements, so you will make any problems without any problems and install it with your own hands.

You can use the ball bearing of the desired size as a roller. The bearing is installed in the holder. The device itself needs to be rigidly fixed at the required distance from the surface of your countertop. So you will provide a constant dense clamp of the workpiece to the surface of the table top at the time of the product under the roller. This will increase the accuracy and safety of the work performed.

Stainears relate with respect to their milling table. And for this there is a good reason, since such structures make it possible to increase the productivity and efficiency of the workflow. Now it is not a problem to find suitable models of tables for a hand mill, but they cost expensive until indecent. But make a milling machine with your own hands, without spending big money on a corporate table or buying a cheap Chinese analogue and throwing money to the wind, under the power of every economic person. This requires an electric motor of a suitable power, a guide design and a table.

Purpose of milling table

Working with a manual milling is to perform operations for moving the machine along the rigidly fixed surface of the workpiece treated. It is not always convenient. And therefore comes often on the contrary: a milling mill is fastened, and moves - the workpiece. In this case, already talk about the design, which is called a "milling table", and not just about the "manual milling" instrument.

Milling tables Quite often make it possible to achieve results that were previously available only to the furniture professional workshops who have milling machines. With their help, cutting on the curves, rubbing the grooves, the manufacture of connections, processing and profiling of the edges, as well as cutting curly holes.

The big advantage of this design is that with the help of a milling table for a hand milling mill, you can process various materials such as wood, chipboard, MDF, plastic, etc., in wooden parts to make slots and grooves, connect the parts on the tongs and spikes , create decorative profiles and remove the chamfer.

The milling table is also easily used as a woodworking machine. Just for this you need to fasten the tool in the workbench or in the rack. It becomes very not surprising that a large number of firms thickened the indomitable appetite of the joiners, producing a fairly wide range of milling tables, as well as accessories. Homemade milling tables, however, are sometimes not inferior to brand on their own characteristics.

Construction of milling table

You can use to install a manual milling workbar surface or can be made of a separate table. The table is distinguished by a rigid design and is well sustainable, because the milling machine when working causes a rather strong vibration. It should also be borne in mind that the milling mill is attached to the bottom, and it is important that nothing bothered him. Therefore, there are no additional elements in this part.

The mounting plate serves to fasten the milling meter to the table, it is made of durable and high-quality materials. To do this, uses textolite, metal sheet or plywood. Usually there are threaded compounds on the sole, for reliable fastening of plastic masonry.

The sample under the plate is present on top of the countertop, so that the latter blends flush. The plate is fixed with self-drawers, which have a secret head, to the tabletop. A hole is drilled for fastening the sole, and the opening of the plate is duplicated in the table top. The milling mill is attached to the table with the screws with a secret head. In case there are no holes in the sole for fastening the plate, they will be drilled independently, and the fit pictures can also be used.

The button is fixed on the table, which is used for easy power on, it is also possible to establish an alarm-fungus button for its safety purposes. For more comfortable work and fixation of larger blanks, the table under the hand mill can be equipped with upper clamping devices. Also for the convenience of measurement it is customary to fix the ruler.

Beginning of work

It is best to start the process of making a design for a manual milling from the definition in the workshop of the future table. A clear view must be primarily about how much the milling table is required: which is the side expansion of the table of the saw (aggregate), bench-top (portable) or separate (stationary).

If you have to work, using the milling table only sometimes, or outside the workshop, you need to think about the portable version, you can hang it on the wall or remove it to save it. If enough space, then the maximum convenience will provide a separate milling table, you can put it on the wheels and then have it convenient. You can configure a portable or separate standing milling table to perform the operation and left at the time, and it will not interfere with other tools, devices and machines.

It is possible to build a low structure as a simple device, which can be placed on the usual table. Take a sheet of chipboard and fasten the guide on it. According to the drawings of the table for a manual milling chaser, it can be a regular piece of board not very large thickness. Next, it is necessary to fix it with bolted connections.

To do this, take two clamps. Next, you need further a hole for the cutter. That's all. If the milling machine for you is the main tool, then it means you need to make a solid and convenient milling table, after all it will have to spend a lot of time.

Stanna and table top

The face of any milling table is the stationary part, that is, it is a frame on the supports, which has a tabletop on top. What makes a frame, there is no significant value: welded steel design, MDF, chipboard, wood. The main and main task is to ensure its stability and rigidity in the process. Also, the size of the beds are not critical, and to be selected depending on the dimensions of the processed parts.

In order not to be stuffed with my legs, the operator of the machine for the part of the structure, you need to deepen the lower part of the bed (like the furniture base) millimeters per 100-200 on the front sweep of the tabletop used. For processing door linings and ends of the billets of facades for the side of the homemade table for a manual milling mill, you can advise the following dimensions in millimeters: height - 900, depth - 500, width - 1500.

An important parameter, perhaps, is height, it should be in the range of 850-900 millimeters, as such a height is optimal for working standing. It is quite good when the bed has adjustable supports, using such supports you can compensate for the irregularities of the floor, as well as if necessary, change the height of the table.

The inexpensive and good example of the tabletop for the milling table made by your own hands is the kitchen ordinary tabletop based on a chipboard thickness of 26 or 36 millimeters, which is covered with wear-resistant plastic. It is well sliding a blank over the surface of solid plastic, the standard depth of the table top for a kitchen is 600 millimeters in operation, and the chipboard is quite good extinguishing vibration. For the table top, in extreme cases, the plates of MDF or LDSP (chipboard) are suitable from 16 millimeters.

Mounting plate table

Due to the fairly large thickness of the kitchen countertops (at least 26 millimeters), and to maintain the entire amplitude of the milling cutter, the construct of the milling plate is provided by the installation of the mounting plate near the place where it is attached to the table of the milling sole. This item with a low thickness is characterized by quite high strength.

The plate is often made of metal, but in the processing is still more convenient and not inferior in strength is the strokhecstolit (textolite). The textolite mounting plate is a rectangular part with a thickness of 4-8 millimeters, with a side of 150-300 millimeters, which in the center is made with the same diameter as the hole in the sole of the mill.

In the fuser sole, there are usually regular threaded holes that are designed to fasten the plastic lining. By their fastening to the milling plate of the milling plate. If suddenly there are no holes, you need to make these holes yourself, or the milling mill to secure in another way, for example, with the help of metal brackets. We need to mount the plate on the table top to drill closer to the corners of the plate four holes.

Collection of milling table

The first thing is temporarily to the finished bed fasten the worktop, as shown on the video about the tables for the hand mill. On an extended place in advance on the table top lay a mounting plate, and its exact location is celebrated by a pencil along the contour. With the help of a manual milling mill with a small cutter diameter of 6-10 millimeters in the table top, they choose a landing place for the mounting plate, such that it is flush, that is, ideally with the top surface of the table top.

It is also necessary to not forget that the landing place of our plate will not have direct angles, but rounded, it means that it will be necessary to round the corners with the help of a file with a file with the same radius of the textolite mounting plate. After the mounting plate was added, you need a milling mill with a straight milling mill than a tabletop, to make end-to-end milling in the opening table top in the form of this sole of the mill.

Of particular accuracy, such an operation does not require. But you need to be prepared for an additional sample below the table top of the material, for example, for the housing of the dust collector and different other devices.

Now everything remains to connect together. Mill we bring it from the bottom, screwing it to the plate, and then with the help of self-tapping screws, the plane to the tabletop. We look at ensuring that the hats of fastening elements are reliably recessed, and they should not be clinging for the workpiece when it is slipped across the worktop. Finally, you are finishing a tabletop to the bed.

Upper presser

For additional security and convenience, you can equip the design, according to the drawings of the table under the hand mill, the upper clamping device made on the basis of the roller. This is especially necessary when working with overall billets, for example, such as door linings. Very simple clips design.

Ball bearing suitable sizes, for example, can serve as a roller. Mounted bearing into the holding device, it can be rigidly fixed from the surface of the table top at the desired distance. This is the most secured constantly dense clamping of the workpiece to the table top when passing under the blank roller.

Self-made

If you are gathered to design a simple homemade milling machine, you must pay your attention to the electric drive. An important factor is its power. For the machine with a shallow sample of wooden blanks, even a motor with a capacity of 500 watts can even come up. Still, such a machine will often be sick, so he will not justify any time nor means saved to buy a low-power engine.

Due to observations, it can be seen that the optimal version is a motor with a power of 1100 W. Motor with a capacity of 1-2 kilowatt will allow in the usual mode to make wood processing, as well as apply any type of cutter. The electromotors are suitable here both stationary and drives of manual power tools, such as hand cutters, drill, Bulgarian.

Another important factor is the turnout. The greater the number of revolutions, the even more and cleaner will be cut. If the engine is calculated for a regular household network of 220 volts, there will be no problems with the connection. But already a three-phase asynchronous engine is needed by a special scheme - a triangle star, which guarantees the maximum possible issuance in this situation, as well as smooth start. If you connect a three-phase electromotor into a single-phase network, then an efficiency of 30 - 50% will be lost.

Security questions

After the manufacture of the table for a manual milling mill, you must say about the main thing, that is, about security. Recommended strongly for cutters to make a protective screen by type of samples for industrial milling tables. You also need to equip the machine to equip the so-called "fungus", that is, the emergency stop button, placing, this button is in an easily accessible place, and also exclude the accidental press of the start button.

After that, it is recommended to make the backlight of the working area, as the most dangerous place around the cutter. It makes sense with a fairly frequent change of the height of the altitude of the departure of the cutter over the automatic or manual device of lowering and lifting the mill. The design of the homemade milling machine can be improved much and long depending on the tasks and fantasy of the designer.