On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:02:35 -0500, "Proctologically Violated©®"
wrote:

Yeah, most of them are Hardinge's, and the goddamm price *never* goes down!
Very nice to work on.

Chuckers..HCs..Hardinge..seem to be going for about $1000-1500 here in
California of late.

Often have handle-actuated turrets, sometimes a separate parting attachment,
and nice motorized powerfeed in x,y, continuously variable spindle speed,
coolant, you name it....
And inlaid *ivory* on the goddamm handles!! No foolin....

Proly you could put a live center in the turret, using it as a tail stock if
you had to. iirc, the beds weren't *that* short, and you could turn a shaft
mebbe 18" long or so.

For small parts (or at least some of the ops), proly the only way to go,
short of very expensive/sophisticated CNC, and then sometimes not even
then....

There's a shop in LI that has I think nearly a hundred of these chuckers,
does excellent work, usually ahead of deadline, if you can bleeve dat....

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