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

Good gloat, Leon. You suck!

I just survived a trip to California to watch my niece get married,
but I picked up a cold/flu bug. It sucked all the fun out of the trip
to _Gunnerland_, if you can believe that. I had a chance to get to the
range with Gunner and had to pass it up. I could barely stand up, let
alone run around a rifle range. ****ED ME OFF, IT DID. I'm hoping I
can get back to work next Monday, just before a rainstorm comes in to
ruin the rest of my week.

I came home with a little MIG setup (repairable, no feed drive but a
spool gun attached), a leetle 25A plasma cutter, a table saur, a 50'
roll of artist's canvas, some scrap s/s and plain steel cutoffs, a
dual-trace o-scope, a DVM, a sweep gen, a dozen blacksmithing and
metalworking hammers, an axe, 30# of various stick and TIG filler,
some TIG electrodes, a small gen head I can power with a bicycle or
gas engine, a bicycle stand, plus a few hundred pounds of various and
good "stuff", and a disk drive full of survival info. So I get to
gloat, too. /neener

--
Give me the luxuries of life.
I can live without the necessities.
--anon