Yesterday,I looked at a milling machine. It is a Newport (which after several hours of reading and looking at pictures, seems to be an almost exact copy of a Bridgeport series 1 J head).
The man selling it wants $1500 and said he would hold it for me till Monday. There is not any tooling except for 6 r8 collets. No vice or clamps. The power feed motor is missing. On the plus side is has a pathfinder-5 DRO that mostly works (there are a couple of numbers that are missing "legs?" ie.. a 6...
How Expensive Is A Sloppy Table On A Mill???
The man selling it wants $1500 and said he would hold it for me till Monday. There is not any tooling except for 6 r8 collets. No vice or clamps. The power feed motor is missing. On the plus side is has a pathfinder-5 DRO that mostly works (there are a couple of numbers that are missing "legs?" ie.. a 6...
How Expensive Is A Sloppy Table On A Mill???