I have been shopping around for almost a year and finally pulled the trigger my first mill, it is a J-head, during my hunt I passed up a 2hp Famco, a bunch of M-heads, a couple of round column imports, and countless hours of craigslist calls and emails looking at clapped out parts machines.
The machine has a few more holes in the table than I would have liked (filled with epoxy), but they are all on the most forward part of the table, a couple of good posts here convinced me that it was something worth getting over. The mill came with a 140 servo power feed on the X, one shot lube, a kurt vise, an older DRO, a full set import R8 collets and a hold down kit...and the seller is going to deliver it for the asking price (which is where my forklift will complete the transaction).
I plan to install a VFD on it after a good clean-up and familiarization of the machine, I am sure I will have lots of questions
The machine has a few more holes in the table than I would have liked (filled with epoxy), but they are all on the most forward part of the table, a couple of good posts here convinced me that it was something worth getting over. The mill came with a 140 servo power feed on the X, one shot lube, a kurt vise, an older DRO, a full set import R8 collets and a hold down kit...and the seller is going to deliver it for the asking price (which is where my forklift will complete the transaction).
I plan to install a VFD on it after a good clean-up and familiarization of the machine, I am sure I will have lots of questions