Peter Wiley wrote:
In article .com,
Greg Rudd wrote:

Peter Wiley wrote:
In article .com,
Greg Rudd wrote:

Hi all

I am in the market for looking for a mill I have had a look at Hare and
Forbes and the HM 50 seems to be the one for me to go for. I am just
wondering is there anyone else in the Sydney metro area that any of the
Australian readers would recommend.

Depends on if you want new or used. I'd talk with Richard Cannon at
Emco Machine Tools(02 9648 4377) and see what he had used first.

The HM 50 looks ok and I'm probably going to buy the HM 52G for work.
The one thing I really don't like about the HM 50 is the speed range.
220 RPM is way too high for a low speed if you're going to run any big
cutters. A B/port goes down to 80 RPM, IIRC.

PDW


Yeah I am not worried about new or used as long it is in good nick.
Yeah I was thinking of geting one of the 45 but when you add up the
costs of a stand an x-axis power feed, a collet set and a vice you get
near the same price as the 50

I wouldn't get the 45 either. However the lack of low speed on the HM
50 would stop me from buying it. Might not be important to you.

You're about 3 weeks too late - I arranged for a friend of mine to buy
a quite nice used vert mill off of Hare & Forbes for $1500. We had to
do a little work on it and buy a single phase-3 phase VFD but his total
investment is still less than $2500 for quite a nice machine.

Don't be in too much of a rush would be my advice, plus look at 3 phase
machines.

PDW


I am quite happy to wait out untill aug. ( Tax return time ;-) ) I went
to Emmco earlier today and nothing there took my fancy. As to the
Holbrook lathe thats another story. Yeah I was talking to my dad who is
a retired fitter he sort of agreed. However I have been told that you
can get variable speed controllers to get the speed lower As to that I
don't know what the long term effect would bo on the motor. I have sort
of gathered that Hare and Forbes are getting out of the second hand
market. But If you hear anything please let me know as that is a nice
price. As a matter of interest what did you have to do to this
machine.

-greg