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The next two images show the head assembly of the milling machine. As you can see it has four speeds which are selected by moving the belts to the right pulleys for the speed in question. The head takes collets sufficiently large to hold 1/2 inch cutters and smaller. The main casting for the head was made using a pattern of my dad's own construction.

This is the pattern for the head of the mill. My father seems to have made it out of pine, though with the paint I cannot be entirely sure. As you can see the pattern is color coded in the usual way, and it splits into two pieces to allow placing the core properly in the resulting mold. I'm not completely sure where he had this cast. It might have been at the foundry at his work or it might have been done by a friend.

This is the sliding table that holds the work in the milling machine. My father constructed this himself. It bolts to holes threaded into what was formerly the table for the drillpress from which he constructed the machine. The table can be moved by the cranks you see on the front and right end.