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Trevor Jones

wrote:
Hi,

I am looking at adding a milling machine to my home shop. I can
either buy a RF45 (Taiwanese Rong Fu, not a clone) or for
slightly more a Chinese Knee mill with coolant and power feed. Both
will probably do what I need. Can anyone give me a push in one of
these directions? I have basically restricted my search to a mill with
a square column/dovetails.

I know it would be better to get a used Bridgeport, or some other
American Iron but where I am (Western Canada), these machines (well
used) are typically 5000 USD+ used, which is more than I want to
spend.

Thanks for any guidance you can provide.

Chris

Where are you?

The few dealers I have run dealt with, had prices that could be best
described as "optimistic". To the extent that I figured I could get two
up from the states and resell one to recoup at least the costs of
trucking both.

Look at Busy Bee's website. China, not Taiwan, though.

They have pretty good rates on their shipping. Really good. Depending
where you are, it may be far cheaper than driving there.

Look at the A1-S clones. B048, or CT054

If you are in BC, you could do to consider a two day trip down to
Washington state and buy a machine through Grizzly.

Cheers
Trevor Jones