On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:18 +0100, David Billington
wrote:

Tim Wescott wrote:
Even at that price I can't drag it home this year (business _sucked_
for several months, and it's still not recovered).

But unless the ways are trashed, I think that one could actually end
up with something better than a Chinese machine at a price consistent
with a new mill/drill piece of crap.

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/tls/2469548188.html

Damn. If I'd seen this last year at this time, I'd be heading out
there with a truck and a checkbook.

Might be better to stay away and wait for something that's all
Bridgeport. I don't know what the base is but it doesn't look like
anything I've seen on a J head BP. As there doesn't appear to be a ram
behind the head I wonder if it's a horizontal mill that has had a BP
head added.

No..its unlikely to be a horizontal. It originally was a vertical mill,
but a small one. Putting that BP head on it wasnt all that bad an
idea..makes it a much smaller footprint machine, assuming the head
doesnt slowly deflect the ram its mounted on.

It sort of reminds me of an old Index mill with a BP head....

Gunner

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