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Atlas bench mill

Tom Kitta said:
A bit pricey but expected. Machine prices are going up and up and away. Besides a $1000 CAD nowdays has far lesser power then it did 10 years ago. With current inflation rates expect these machines to at least double in the next 10 years.
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Would you expect the current inflation rates for the next 10 years?
 
I need to dig out the cutters i have, got them in a auction lot with other stuff i wanted. Think they are 1" bore and new.
 
DPittman said:
Would you expect the current inflation rates for the next 10 years?
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As is there is no end of covid in sight - we have supplies ready for vaccines for the next 2 years - so at least AHS expects this to last up to 2 years. If the current huge inflation lasted for 10 years I would guess more then double in price - but inflation rate is unknown even today so trying to predict what would be in 2 years or 10 is wishful thinking. I mean we could not predict covid at all & inflation is largely driven by it so its anyone guess.
On the other hand I don't recall Canada / US ever pulling negative inflation & I doubt we see that - so there has to be some inflation.
In the last 6 years or so since I got and then sold a mini mill it went up in price by 50%. Most of that time was without covid. So it is reasonable to assume that now with Covid we may see doubling or more after 10 years.
 
gerritv said:
That is a crazy price, the machine needs everything done to it. And of course the Change-O-Matic stuff could be a mess or missing.
As a contrast, this is what I got for $1250 plus fees: I cleaned it but even that wasn't really necessary.
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About 5 years ago I got a K&T #2 with even more cutters you have for $500.
About 2 weeks ago someone paid with fees almost 2500 for over 100 year old lathe in 12x36 config.
I would value the lathe at about half that on auction. Final price shocked me.
 
trlvn said:
My Gord! I wondered how many cutters were with that lot but I never suspected that many! If you had to pay retail, the cutters would be twice what you paid in total!

Craig
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Most are Union Butterfield, others are P&W. 7/8" and 1" arbors mostly although there are some strange ones with thread inside. And of course a bunch of shell mills.

My wife carried them out in one batch in a USPS container. I ,on the other hand, could only drag the bin across the floor in the basement here :-) I wasn't about to try lifting. She is a keeper, 33 years so far....
I'll start a separate thread on the machine in a while .
Gerrit
 
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