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.


That is a head off a tracer machine. Now to make you all cry and me
too, a shop I work with threw out a perfectly good 3 axis bridgeport
tracer machine. Another guy saw it in the scrap yard and wondered what
it was with the tracer attachment mounted on it. The also scrapped a
perfectly good Cincinnatti #2 tool and cutter grinder too, fourteen
cents a pound. Makes you want to cry .


John