JasonPAtkins
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Hello all,
I have a Bridgeport TQ22 VMC (I don't remember the year offhand, late 90's anyway) for sale.
More/better photos: Google Photos Album
(Pictured vise not included.)
A little background, I'm from Michigan but live most of the time in West Africa where I run a non-profit fab/machining shop and vocational training program. This machine was just removed (a week or two ago) from a friend's shop in Almont, MI and is now in storage at a local rigger's warehouse. It was donated to my non-profit with the idea that I would send it over to my shop in West Africa, along with a Trak lathe. The lathe will find a ride over here next year, but I've decided that the VMC is a bit more than I can handle in terms of rigging, transport, maintenance, and power requirements over here. I already have a Tree J425 over here, and although I would've like the rigid tapping and toolchanger of the Torq-Cut, its size is pushing the very edge of my ability over here to move equipment since there aren't riggers. (The guy who donated the machine is fine with me selling it and putting the money toward something smaller, lest anyone think I accepted it under false pretenses.)
Relevant info: it was making parts up until a few weeks ago, but with a few limitations. The most important one is that there is a shot pin error in the transmission which is preventing the machine from going into high speed (it has a two speed mechanical gearbox, which seems like a nice feature for low speed tapping torque, but in this case is stuck there.) I haven't been into it myself, but it seems possible that this is nothing more than some gummy oil that needs to be cleaned, but you never know. The monitor also had a problem, and was replaced by another sitting on the machine, as you can see in the pics.
Just before it was donated to me late last year, the guy who donated it (Steve @ Rite Tool, if anyone knows him) had the computer replaced with a new one including the disk on chip module. Shortly after arriving at my friend's shop in Almont, they found a bad servo driver and replaced it. Steve also said the way covers were new in the last few years. Steve was the original owner, I believe.
I don't have all of the specs, but AFAIK the machine runs DOS, has rigid tapping, a 20 something tool changer, weighs about 6000#, includes manuals, and is wired for 220v 3ph (although I read on a thread somewhere that they're very easy to convert to 220 single phase, if someone wants it for their garage shop.)
I'm open to pricing input from anyone familiar with things in this market. My benchmark is that the twin of this machine was sold to a firm that outfits them with new controls, and they paid $7k for it. I want to get rid of it, but want to be realistic about value while not being wasteful of a resource someone donated to my organization, if that makes sense.
(Also, in case anyone is getting ready to upgrade out of something the size of a Haas Mini Mill and would like to donate it for a write-off, that's probably the machine I'm headed toward!)
Thank you all!
I have a Bridgeport TQ22 VMC (I don't remember the year offhand, late 90's anyway) for sale.
More/better photos: Google Photos Album
(Pictured vise not included.)
A little background, I'm from Michigan but live most of the time in West Africa where I run a non-profit fab/machining shop and vocational training program. This machine was just removed (a week or two ago) from a friend's shop in Almont, MI and is now in storage at a local rigger's warehouse. It was donated to my non-profit with the idea that I would send it over to my shop in West Africa, along with a Trak lathe. The lathe will find a ride over here next year, but I've decided that the VMC is a bit more than I can handle in terms of rigging, transport, maintenance, and power requirements over here. I already have a Tree J425 over here, and although I would've like the rigid tapping and toolchanger of the Torq-Cut, its size is pushing the very edge of my ability over here to move equipment since there aren't riggers. (The guy who donated the machine is fine with me selling it and putting the money toward something smaller, lest anyone think I accepted it under false pretenses.)
Relevant info: it was making parts up until a few weeks ago, but with a few limitations. The most important one is that there is a shot pin error in the transmission which is preventing the machine from going into high speed (it has a two speed mechanical gearbox, which seems like a nice feature for low speed tapping torque, but in this case is stuck there.) I haven't been into it myself, but it seems possible that this is nothing more than some gummy oil that needs to be cleaned, but you never know. The monitor also had a problem, and was replaced by another sitting on the machine, as you can see in the pics.
Just before it was donated to me late last year, the guy who donated it (Steve @ Rite Tool, if anyone knows him) had the computer replaced with a new one including the disk on chip module. Shortly after arriving at my friend's shop in Almont, they found a bad servo driver and replaced it. Steve also said the way covers were new in the last few years. Steve was the original owner, I believe.
I don't have all of the specs, but AFAIK the machine runs DOS, has rigid tapping, a 20 something tool changer, weighs about 6000#, includes manuals, and is wired for 220v 3ph (although I read on a thread somewhere that they're very easy to convert to 220 single phase, if someone wants it for their garage shop.)
I'm open to pricing input from anyone familiar with things in this market. My benchmark is that the twin of this machine was sold to a firm that outfits them with new controls, and they paid $7k for it. I want to get rid of it, but want to be realistic about value while not being wasteful of a resource someone donated to my organization, if that makes sense.
(Also, in case anyone is getting ready to upgrade out of something the size of a Haas Mini Mill and would like to donate it for a write-off, that's probably the machine I'm headed toward!)
Thank you all!