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Deciphering a Bridgeport Mill...
....from cheesy web pictures.
Local enough, price seems tolerable (but probably indicates wear/age as well as the short (32"?) table.) Don't know if it's inconvenient 480V 3 phase which the last overpriced one I didn't bother looking at was.... I don't know enough about Bridgeports to decipher what the head is. The lister "listed it for a friend" and says answers to my questions will be a few days - but I can go look at it in person, so I don't think we're looking at any Nigerian scam artists here. I also don't know what I don't know about looking at a Bridgeport, to some extent. I guess it has the dovetail ram, which is a good thing, as I understand it. I've done a lot more with lathes than mills, but I'm looking to add either a mill or a shaper to the line-up, and shapers are few, far between, and really hard to move if they are big enough to do much work. http://images.craigslist.org/3m23p53...2a14c31bd3.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/3m83o73...90f4341445.jpg http://images.craigslist.org/3kb3o03...59755e19a6.jpg Anything good, bad, indifferent, useful, sucky about the mills in the pictures you can tell from the pictures would be helpful. Where to look and what to check for (I guess I know that scraping patterns worn away indicate bed wear, but I'm really limited on "common problems of the Bridgeport to look out for" -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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