Bridgeport in Hamilton $2000
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I bought this mill yesterday. I was lucky enough the be the first to respond to the add. It came with a heavy milling vise, 2 carbide surface cutters, a collet set, drill chuck(all 40 taper), a set of parallels and the Sony DRO, has power feeds in x and y direction. The machine was running and made a couple cuts as well. There was a little noise coming from the head that I need to look into but everything else looked great. Better still, I walked away with this for $1400 so very happy with that.
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Ian
Congrats on the new acquisition! How did you get it home and how did you unload it?
The mill came out of a fabrication shop. They said it had not been used excessively like 8 hrs a day or anything like that. They replaced the mill with a new one some years ago, so was sitting in a corner taking up space and they wanted it out. Based on the serial number it was built in 1977.
For the move I rented a tandem axle trailer. At over 2000 lbs my single axle trailer was too light for this move.
It was loaded with a fork lift at the shop and off loaded by tractor and fork attachment for temporary storage at my brothers farm.
The shop employee said to lift it under the ram with a wood block spacer. They do it that way at there shop. Hope that was right way to load as this is new to me? Secured it in the trailer by 4 straps around the center column at the turret swivel just under the ram. I should have taken some pics but forgot to in the hast of loading, not to mention the light rain that was happening on Saturday.
Stretched wrapped it and tarped it for the trip home
It will eventually make it to my garage after I make some room and get the 3 phase power figured out. Maybe get a rotary phase convertor.
For the move I rented a tandem axle trailer. At over 2000 lbs my single axle trailer was too light for this move.
It was loaded with a fork lift at the shop and off loaded by tractor and fork attachment for temporary storage at my brothers farm.
The shop employee said to lift it under the ram with a wood block spacer. They do it that way at there shop. Hope that was right way to load as this is new to me? Secured it in the trailer by 4 straps around the center column at the turret swivel just under the ram. I should have taken some pics but forgot to in the hast of loading, not to mention the light rain that was happening on Saturday.
Stretched wrapped it and tarped it for the trip home
It will eventually make it to my garage after I make some room and get the 3 phase power figured out. Maybe get a rotary phase convertor.
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Brent H
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@B Vader : check out Kijiji for more collets, if you have a 40 taper that is good size.
hey @Tom Kitta : you could pick your spindle taper up to #40 without changing other options so the mill probably is a standard Bridgeport with a 40 taper option:
hey @Tom Kitta : you could pick your spindle taper up to #40 without changing other options so the mill probably is a standard Bridgeport with a 40 taper option:
