Hi
I have not been on this forum long but have found plenty of valuable info,
I do a lot of small and simple lathe work at home in my spare time, along with plenty of welding and fabrication work on various cars mainly for track use here in the UK and my day to day job is welder and fabricator for a company mainly making intercoolers and radiators and tanks etc for fast road cars and track cars
I have a Harrison M300 lathe that i got in quite a state and fully stripped, checked over, painted and put back together which is now a lovely machine, but i always wanted a nice Bridgeport to go with it even though i don't have the space for one at the moment
Anyway, about 2 months ago a lad at work mentioned a Bridgeport mill sat in his mates car salvage yard that used to be in a workshop but got put outside as it was in the way of the people renting the space who were not interested in it, i see 2 pictures of the mill and said it was a shame someone had put it outside to rot basically and now it was pretty much worth scrap money only but offered him £300 (about $420). I had not seen the mill and did not want to go and look at it either for that money, so he accepted the offer and i paid somebody another £200 ($280) to deliver it
So that is where it all starts, i know this is not a like new machine and i know it is worn but for the sort of work i do it will be fine, most of my jobs are boring, drilling and just skimming parts down for cars, there's nothing i do that requires tight tolerances, i am now over halfway through the tear down so i will add a few photos and keep posting until i am up to date
Thanks
Marc
I have not been on this forum long but have found plenty of valuable info,
I do a lot of small and simple lathe work at home in my spare time, along with plenty of welding and fabrication work on various cars mainly for track use here in the UK and my day to day job is welder and fabricator for a company mainly making intercoolers and radiators and tanks etc for fast road cars and track cars
I have a Harrison M300 lathe that i got in quite a state and fully stripped, checked over, painted and put back together which is now a lovely machine, but i always wanted a nice Bridgeport to go with it even though i don't have the space for one at the moment
Anyway, about 2 months ago a lad at work mentioned a Bridgeport mill sat in his mates car salvage yard that used to be in a workshop but got put outside as it was in the way of the people renting the space who were not interested in it, i see 2 pictures of the mill and said it was a shame someone had put it outside to rot basically and now it was pretty much worth scrap money only but offered him £300 (about $420). I had not seen the mill and did not want to go and look at it either for that money, so he accepted the offer and i paid somebody another £200 ($280) to deliver it
So that is where it all starts, i know this is not a like new machine and i know it is worn but for the sort of work i do it will be fine, most of my jobs are boring, drilling and just skimming parts down for cars, there's nothing i do that requires tight tolerances, i am now over halfway through the tear down so i will add a few photos and keep posting until i am up to date
Thanks
Marc