I am new here { 1st time } I am trying to find a place or person that can help me determin the value of a machine that I have.
Reading off the machine it says...
Cindex, King Miller
Universal Milling & Drilling Machine
Model TFY-515
Spindle Speed
1 2920
2 1750
3 1050
4 580
5 240
It has a Logitudinal/Cross slide deck on it. I can not tell how old it is because the man that i got it from passed away. Everything on it seems to work. Can anyone give me an idea of what it may be worth ? Or a place that I may find out its value. Thank you for any help with this. Being an outsider I realy appreciate it

Isn't that just a common Asian mill/drill ?

Sounds like it may be a fairly cheap mill drill if it is condition depending and what type of tooling it takes, $500 tops. Yet it could be anything, post some pictures that may help. Or just stick it on ebay describing it as well as you can, with a $50-100 opening bid and let the people decided what its worth (or often over decide), just be sure to place there with several pics.

Adam

Hello, I ran across this thread when I was investigating the used King Miller Drill / Mill that I prurchased in June 2009 for from a gentleman up in the LA Area. It was in pretty rough shape when I acquired it but after completely disassembly, stripping all the crud/grime/gore/paint, removing all the rust and pollishing up the bright work and primer/painting the machine. So for $325 for the machine plus $40 for the heavy duty bench and a gang of elbow grease and probably a few beers; I now own what for me is a great machine for my home workshop, simple design that has a 3/4 HP Motor with a 5 speed pulley system, the R8 tooling and the hand crank to raise and lower the Motor and headstock run up and down very smoothly, the Pillar collumn is slotted and has a latch that prevents twisting. The head can rotate 45 degees in bot the x and y axis (though I keep it plumb as it's a hassle getting the allignment set).

Since there was not much information on this unit so here's what I found in my search regarding this machine.

Yep, it was made in Taiwan and after spending alot of time trying to get information on it I was able to track down the advertisements that where in the back of the Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines in the early 1980's.

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King Mida Universal Milling and Drilling Machine
Model TFY-515
3/4 HP 1 phase

Speeds: 240,580,1050,1750,2920

I've added my pictures to this post and the following link is to another fellow who has one.

Enjoy,

Dave




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http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...74179466ThAuqk

Here's the machine all cleaned up. I'll have to build a bench for it, as the machine came to me without one. According to it's four page instruction manual, it's model number is: TFY 515. The 'TFY' represents it's manufacturer: Ta Fu Yan.
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Hello Adam a few years back you asked about a King Miller Drill/Mill machine... I just posted some info and pictures on it and thought you might be interested

Dave

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...90#post1234790