deerefanatic
Aluminum
- Joined
- May 17, 2011
- Location
- Colon, MI
Hey guys, I do repair machine work in my shop. I'm located in a building with a trucks/heavy equipment repair facility (that I also work for as an employee, separate from my shop when I'm not busy). I've been looking at getting an HBM to do repairs on booms, transmission housings, axle housings, etc. I found a G&L 340T not too far from me, with DRO, and it was supposedly rebuilt and rescraped in 2000. Owner is motivated to move it as he has a new VTL coming in April.
This machine looks clean from pictures. I haven't been to see it in person yet. I can tell from pictures it does NOT have the high speed auxiliary spindle on it. It is a #5MT machine. Is this something I'm going to greatly miss having? The asking price is already under $10,000; and I believe I could get them down to 4-5k being it HAS to go. For what it's worth, for lots of drilling, I have a radial drill press if I need to do a bunch of hole drilling.
What else should I be looking at apart from the typical making sure all the functions work? Spindle droop/sag? is that a thing on these? Runout, etc?
This machine looks clean from pictures. I haven't been to see it in person yet. I can tell from pictures it does NOT have the high speed auxiliary spindle on it. It is a #5MT machine. Is this something I'm going to greatly miss having? The asking price is already under $10,000; and I believe I could get them down to 4-5k being it HAS to go. For what it's worth, for lots of drilling, I have a radial drill press if I need to do a bunch of hole drilling.
What else should I be looking at apart from the typical making sure all the functions work? Spindle droop/sag? is that a thing on these? Runout, etc?