I'm stoked! I finally was able to hook up my 'new' mill and make a mess with it.
:bounce2::bounce::bounce2:
I bought it mid last year, and its been sitting (and some folks say in the way) waiting to get hooked up. Finally had the opportunity to take the time to kill the power to the place, add an outlet and build an extension cord and all the other things required.
Sweet!
Better yet, its first job was work related so it was a paying gig
Clamping set-up isn't nearly as hokey as it looks, its just a drilling and tapping operation, I wouldn't do any heavy milling with it, but it worked for what I was doing.
3-phase, 3-horse, Step Pulley Bridgeport head, mounted on an ANCIENT Leblond horizontal unit (long since non-powered), but if I add a motor to it all have power feeds on every axis.
Little sloppy, and needs new handles, but did come with a pretty decent DRO and a bit of tooling (always good).
Heavy as hell, and thats good.
I need to go tooling shopping. I got spoiled at my last couple jobs and took it for granted most of the tooling and fixtures they had, now I need to get my own (decent drill chuck(s), end mills, drill sets, complete clamp-down kit, angle plates etc).
Now to get my lathe fired up (unbury and make new pig-tail), and rearrange the 'shop' so things are more in a 'permanent' location and set-up.
:smokin:
:bounce2::bounce::bounce2:
I bought it mid last year, and its been sitting (and some folks say in the way) waiting to get hooked up. Finally had the opportunity to take the time to kill the power to the place, add an outlet and build an extension cord and all the other things required.
Sweet!
Better yet, its first job was work related so it was a paying gig
Clamping set-up isn't nearly as hokey as it looks, its just a drilling and tapping operation, I wouldn't do any heavy milling with it, but it worked for what I was doing.
3-phase, 3-horse, Step Pulley Bridgeport head, mounted on an ANCIENT Leblond horizontal unit (long since non-powered), but if I add a motor to it all have power feeds on every axis.
Little sloppy, and needs new handles, but did come with a pretty decent DRO and a bit of tooling (always good).
Heavy as hell, and thats good.
I need to go tooling shopping. I got spoiled at my last couple jobs and took it for granted most of the tooling and fixtures they had, now I need to get my own (decent drill chuck(s), end mills, drill sets, complete clamp-down kit, angle plates etc).
Now to get my lathe fired up (unbury and make new pig-tail), and rearrange the 'shop' so things are more in a 'permanent' location and set-up.
:smokin: