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Old 02-10-2018, 08:03 PM
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That Cincinnati mill would be perfect for my needs. Thanks for posting. About an 8 hr drive for me. I'll keep looking for something closer.
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Old 02-10-2018, 08:33 PM
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some in my neck of the woods
https://raleigh.craigslist.org/searc...illing+machine
https://fayetteville.craigslist.org/...484572854.html
https://greensboro.craigslist.org/hv...482292208.html
https://raleigh.craigslist.org/hvo/d...480267797.html
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OK, after several weeks of looking and talking, I found a mill in Virginia Beach, about 100 miles south of me. Brought it home today. It's dated 1981 but was hardly used. It's a Bridgeport Taiwanese clone. 2hp, 3ph. No tooling, only a vise. Has X and Y DRO, X and Z axis power feed, oiler, and a mister. No discernable wear on the x or y axis as movement of the bed does not reveal a change in effort as they are transversed from end to end of travel. I wish I had been able to get some tooling, but the owner was shutting down his shop (he had four mills) and took the best mill and all the tooling home with him.

The seller loaded it on my flatbed trailer with his forklift, I blocked the base and I strapped it down, drove it home and rented a skid steer with pallet forks at home to unload it.

A 4x4 under the top turret spanning the forks balances the mill perfectly. Now just need to get it in final position in the shop and wire it up with a variable frequency controller.

Ordered some R8 tooling to get started. Will take me a week or more to get it set up and tuned/trammed in.
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Looks great SDD & keep feeding us the pics. I hope to have something like that someday.
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Congratulations on your new toy! Six months from now you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.
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Congrats. Haven’t seen a belt pulley speed change machine in awhile.
Have fun! Although I doubt the sanity of people will who want a hobby doing what I’ve done for a living for 30yrs.
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Congrats. Haven’t seen a belt pulley speed change machine in awhile.
Have fun! Although I doubt the sanity of people will who want a hobby doing what I’ve done for a living for 30yrs.
I still see belt pulley mills, even new ones, though no question variable speed would be better. I'm told that a VFD will give it variable speed control.

This replaces the Vacu Form I've been using....
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I still see belt pulley mills, even new ones, though no question variable speed would be better. I'm told that a VFD will give it variable speed control.

This replaces the Vacu Form I've been using....
Or you can make some cool things to form around!
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What brand is it? Looks a little like the Supermax we had when I started. Ours were mid to late 80's models. I bet being a step belt setup that the machine has less wear--everyone gravitates toward variable in a shop (unless there isn't one available).
The mister is probably a KoolMist setup. We used to run them ALL the time. Now I bet we only have 2 or 3 in the shop and they rarely get cut on--those things will smoke you out and it can't be good to breathe! We used to cut the exhaust fan on several times a day to clear the air.
When you buy a vise, try to find the widest opening you can (6" width is pretty standard). Back when that mill was built, 6" opening was normal, but Kurt managed to push it to almost 9--I am assuming the Chinese copied everything they did. A cheap set of 1/8" parallels will be fine for a home shop.
Good luck with your new toy, I wish I had shop room for a full sized machine.
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What brand is it? Looks a little like the Supermax we had when I started. Ours were mid to late 80's models. I bet being a step belt setup that the machine has less wear--everyone gravitates toward variable in a shop (unless there isn't one available).
The mister is probably a KoolMist setup. We used to run them ALL the time. Now I bet we only have 2 or 3 in the shop and they rarely get cut on--those things will smoke you out and it can't be good to breathe! We used to cut the exhaust fan on several times a day to clear the air.
When you buy a vise, try to find the widest opening you can (6" width is pretty standard). Back when that mill was built, 6" opening was normal, but Kurt managed to push it to almost 9--I am assuming the Chinese copied everything they did. A cheap set of 1/8" parallels will be fine for a home shop.
Good luck with your new toy, I wish I had shop room for a full sized machine.
It says Machine World on it, the motor says Tung Hsing. It looks identical in all respects to another clone, the Hartford 2S. I ordered a Hartford mill user manual off Amazon.

I got a vise with it, though I have not checked it out yet to see if it's any good.

I'm going to remove the "machine world" name plate to see what is under it...no reason for that to be so big if it weren't covering something else up?

I have not yet been able to move it into position, still trying to determine best place for it in the shop. Busy with other chores for the next couple days...
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