Jeffrey Caldwell
Plastic
- Joined
- May 20, 2019
Odd title I know. Long story short I'm going to a warehouse that's being liquidated tomorrow, old fab shop. Theres a couple lathes including a monarch apparently, and a bunch of other stuff. Theres an unknown vertical mill, which I have posted the one and only picture of. They have until the beginning of next week to clear it out, and sounds like they are ready to take any offer other than scrap. The guy on the phone (from the liquidation company in grand rapids) sounded like he was almost ready to take 500$ for it. That being said it's some sort of bridgeport clone, looks to be fully manual (no power feed) and on the lighter end of vertical mills.
I'm posting the picture, and looking for either an ID (long shot) or someone willing to talk for 20-30 minutes tonight, and the same tomorrow after I meet with the sales consultant to formulate a reasonable offer for said mill. Just googling vertical mill shows that there are probably close to 50 different companies that at on point sold a Bridgeport clone.
Keys I noticed from the picture that hopefully can delineate machine before tomorrow morning.
The machine appears to bolt to the base, vs being 1 giant piece of cast iron.
The change spindle direction switch (I'm assuming) mounted on the left side of the head.
Square either vent or belt inspection port on left side top of head.
Main electrical switch mounted on back of main body.
Beveled top corners of head, similar to how acra does theirs vs rounded like bridgeport.
So again, looking for someone I can give like 50$ to PayPal, and get a short convo tonight on what to look for (I will be researching the same, so it may just be walking through what I interpret from online guides) when I go run out and condition wise.
And then someone I can call and get an honest opinion on whatever brand mill this ends up being. Obviously I will post on here once I find out what it is, I just dont want someone to snipe this from me while I'm waiting for forum responses (and hence the willingness to pay for the information that is freely available on here).
Here's our one and only pic.
I'm posting the picture, and looking for either an ID (long shot) or someone willing to talk for 20-30 minutes tonight, and the same tomorrow after I meet with the sales consultant to formulate a reasonable offer for said mill. Just googling vertical mill shows that there are probably close to 50 different companies that at on point sold a Bridgeport clone.
Keys I noticed from the picture that hopefully can delineate machine before tomorrow morning.
The machine appears to bolt to the base, vs being 1 giant piece of cast iron.
The change spindle direction switch (I'm assuming) mounted on the left side of the head.
Square either vent or belt inspection port on left side top of head.
Main electrical switch mounted on back of main body.
Beveled top corners of head, similar to how acra does theirs vs rounded like bridgeport.
So again, looking for someone I can give like 50$ to PayPal, and get a short convo tonight on what to look for (I will be researching the same, so it may just be walking through what I interpret from online guides) when I go run out and condition wise.
And then someone I can call and get an honest opinion on whatever brand mill this ends up being. Obviously I will post on here once I find out what it is, I just dont want someone to snipe this from me while I'm waiting for forum responses (and hence the willingness to pay for the information that is freely available on here).
Here's our one and only pic.