finally did it and bought a Bridgeport mill, wow that is one cool machine for the workshop, ebayed but was 150 mile away, like a clown I went to collect in the ram, with everything else my brother and I bought from the same guy my ram was overloaded for sure but a bridgeport is very tall so definetly top heavy, we had to crank it into the lowest possible height
Got 2 milling vices, a rotating milling table, cutters and a 3 phase planishing hammer mill, the legs sticking up on the left is the planishing hammer and the orange thing on the right is the suds tray, I could only just lift the rotating table off the ground wow
It took me nearly a whole day to figure out how operate the quill power feed up/down
Got it all wired in to our shop no bother ( thanks to my brother who does the electrics )
Did a test against our large Fobco pillar drill with a 1/2" drill bit no comparison even without the mill vice clamped down, got a full T slot clamp kit, collet kit and R8 to 25 adaptors ordered
Now got to get my lathe moved from home to workshop
WHOOO HOOOOO
finally did it and bought a Bridgeport mill, wow that is one cool machine for the workshop, ebayed but was 150 mile away, like a clown I went to collect in the ram, with everything else my brother and I bought from the same guy my ram was overloaded for sure but a bridgeport is very tall so definetly top heavy, we had to crank it into the lowest possible height
Got 2 milling vices, a rotating milling table, cutters and a 3 phase planishing hammer mill, the legs sticking up on the left is the planishing hammer and the orange thing on the right is the suds tray, I could only just lift the rotating table off the ground wow
It took me nearly a whole day to figure out how operate the quill power feed up/down
Got it all wired in to our shop no bother ( thanks to my brother who does the electrics )
Did a test against our large Fobco pillar drill with a 1/2" drill bit no comparison even without the mill vice clamped down, got a full T slot clamp kit, collet kit and R8 to 25 adaptors ordered
Now got to get my lathe moved from home to workshop
Me thinks I need wider tyres and a higher ply LOL