"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message ...

Hey, not a bad looking machine for the bucks. Mind you, I'm not a fan of
round column machines, but at that price, it lets the guy in that otherwise
may not have a shot at a small machine. I can see where a hobbyist that
has limited funds could be well served by that little sucker! Just don't
expect the performance of a Gorton from it.

Harold

OOOOOPS! my mistake, or their catalog is screwed up. The price is
right but the mill looks like:

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=44991

Either it was on sale, or they goofed and gave me the next one bigger,
either way, I won't say anything.

They're both dovetail columns, but I'm pretty sure I'll find something
out of square that will have to be taken care of. Not sure how I'll
square it up yet, probably either grind or scrape it square. It looks
more rigid than it really is, the column has one nut on about a 1"
stud to hold it, but all I want it for is small stuff anyhow. Kinda
interesting, on a bench 30" by 5 feet, one could have a pretty good
small machining facility, with the small mill, one of the 7 X 12
lathes and a small drill press and bench grinder. And for less than
$1000 to boot.

THinking about it, it might have been mislabeled right from the
factory, but I'm still not going to cry.