Drilling/Milling Spindle
This accessory uses 15mm collets to hold drills & end mills, It's powered via the overhead drive and it can be set to mill a workpiece held between centres or held in the chuck or faceplate. It can fit on top of the slide or on the side of it where there are bolt fixing threads. The multitude of movements available on the Pittler lathe via the saddle and the cross-slide itself make this tool extremely versatile, it's easily able to drill a hole from almost any angle.
Top left : Shown here in position suitable to mill a spiral on a workpiece held between centres. With the headstock locked with the belt slipped off it would easily be possible to mill a keyway slot along the length of a bar held between centres
Above: Here a drill is set pointing towards the chuck.
It's also possible to lock the headstock and drill multiple holes from different angles on work held on a faceplate. Lateral Movement is via the cross-slide handle and height adjustment via the saddle casting rotation or by raising the cross-slide in it's socket.
Left: Showing the belt coming up from the motor to the 12" pulley powering the overhead countershaft to drive both the lathe itself and also the drilling spindle. it's pulley can be moved along the shaft and locked in any position.
When using the drilling/milling attachment for spiral work the tailstock pulley will drive the leadscrew so the lathe headstock belt has to be slipped off to allow it to turn very slowly. A pulley on the far right end of the same overhead drives the leadscrew so three power belts would run at the same time, one from the motor, one to the drill and one to the tailstock (the green one has to be slackened off.)