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My "Pig in a Poke" Bridgeport auction win

cb1

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Well,

My annual fall equipment auction was not fruitful except for a real old air compressor, so as I was monitoring our state gov auctions, I just picked this up. I did pick up a M-Head in the spring, but this will be a better mil when (if) I can fix it. LOL..

DETAILS: 220 Volt, Single Phase 110 Volt -- 57" L x 57" W x 80" H -- Serial#: J104514 - Mill#: 15, R8 Collet Mill
PROVIDED CONDITION(S): Poor -- Doesn't have digital read out, Is not a CNC machine, Table stuck into position, crossfeed is dismantled, little backlash
SELLER: School District
LOCATION: WI
CONTACT: We have a fork lift to help load items.

Only one picture was available (pig in a poke) to look at.

And, you will notice that they will load it for you with their forklift. These are the auctions I bid in. In a previous post, I had a negative discussion about riggers, etc. This is what I was talking about. I guess, out in the sticks we help each other out. Anyway, back to the mill.

From the picture and that it was at a school, my guess is someone broke it, and the teacher had a student(s) take it apart and it sat that way. I was interested because of the nice paint, which, again, because of a school, looks to be original.

Also, they had a half dozen lathes and 5 more mills that all looked well used. I'm hoping this one broke early in its life and sat unused. Less miles.

No serial number yet as the table is stuck over it. Haha.

And as always, I tell you what I paid, $1179.18 total. Hope to offset that a little when I sell the M-Head. Pray for me.

More pics when I get it home at the end of next week.

Enjoy,

cb1
 

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Just checked my phone, apparently before the auction ended, they called to say the listing was wrong and that it is a 3 phase mill. I kind of figured that anyway, but that was nice of them. Even though, I was sleeping. Work nights. Set my max bid and go to bed. LOL. Winning.

cb1
 
Oh you were on of the guys bidding on that over priced Germantown auction. I looked but they are always more that what they are worth...
 
Yeppers, but I set a max and go to bed. I don't like to play along as that can get expensive. Some of them there Bridgeports went quite high.

I was a looser on the Southbend 4218 the day before. Set my max and went to bed, someone outbid me.

Anyway, I looked at what J-heads go for, especially around these parts and thought that seemed reasonable. We'll see, I not immune to overpaying. LOL.. Side, issue, I can go get myself and they will load. That helps the price.

Plus there is a power unit hanging on the right side of the table. Just barely see it in the pictures. So there's that.

cb1
 
I liked school auctions. stuff like this with low miles and sold off because of some simple problem. someone probably over tighten the table locks or adjusted the gibs of what ever.
 
Update 1

Picked it up today. The bad. Y and Z stuck bad. Not sure what they did, but 10 minutes in zero degrees was enough to load as is.

The good. It has a DRO that was not visible in the one auction pic.

The better. A supervisor and two helpers loaded the mill for me and then the super asked if I wanted to buy anything on this cart or if I wanted everything. I asked how much, he countered what would I give him. I said fifty as it was all I had cash and he said deal, and threw in the cart.

Anyway, at least a hundred cutters.

Unloaded and cutters sorted. Work on later.

cb1
 

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Another picture of mill
 

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Cutters and some collets and some ????
 

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Cutters in tubes are new or mostly new..
 

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Stuff that don't fit my machine..
 

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Last but not least, a couple of height gauges were on the cart also..
 

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Oops, I forgot the DRO..
 

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Back of DRO.

Any comments will be appreciated,

Thanks,

cb1
 

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Taper holders look like a couple of NMTB30 and one NMTB40 shell mill arbor. Dead center looks like a carbide tipped #4MT. Handful of square shank lathe bits and a QC holder of some size. The little orange handled torx driver likely fits the holders on that insert endmill with the 1 1/4" shank on the left of the taper tooling.
 
And a Procunier

And this thing..
 

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Congrats on your find. School districts seem to want the stuff gone. I scored 2 machines from school districts. One was a Diamond horizontal mill in great shape. The 2nd was a 9" South Bend lathe. I was working for a school district that closed their metal shop program and they had to clean everything out for a renovation project. They gave it to me because there was no place to store it and they didn't want to fool with it. Time crunch to get everything out so contractors could take over. Get it out of here - OK gone. I got everything that went with it also. Extra chucks, follower and steady rests, tool holders, boring bars, tapered shank drills, carbide bits, everything related to the lathe. They had a nice knee mill also but another guy got that. I tore the lathe down, painted and reassembled. Great condition.
 
Update 2

We'll, when you paint your window sash and shut the window, when the paint dries, well...
 

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Some pics after disassembly

Got the knee free. Now clean up and replace some busted parts.. LOL..
 

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