On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 13:14:29 -0600, "L Fisk" wrote:

Not to exciting to you eastern boys
but here in Idaho been looking for a decent mill
for awhile. Found an older 5hp 10X54 Taiwan built Acra - CK-4HK
for $400. weighs about 3,000lbs ??
Guy listed it as Machine mill Acura :-)
was there at first light, and he said he had several
more calls, imagine that!
I handed him $20 bills and got a bill of sale.
And went to fetch a trailer, to haul it 110 miles to home
setting on my shop floor now.
Can't really find too much info on it on the web
found the Acra website but doesn't list older models
but pretty a much a Bridgeport clone so not too big of problem
pretty decent shape cept for a couple broken handles
and the powerfeed case is smashed.
owner tipped it over at some point unloading it.
just need some serious cleaning,a VFD and a couple parts to get it going

Acura is a decent enough Taiwanese made mill. Clone of the BP of
course..though some/most of the fasteners will likely be metric.

Guts on Most of them...will be identical to the BPs..with a few
models/years being way different..primarily the J2 (variable speed
heads)

Good machines. Ways hard enough..chromed ones were better..but for
most "light duty milling" we do..more than good enough.

Sounds like you did just fine. Crank handles/powerfeeds will most
generally come right off a BP and go directly on yours with no issues.

Lots of my commercial customers have Acuras and have no problems not
found in BPs

DROs are a direct swap/match as well.

Gunner

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