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Do you have a mill and what kind is it?
- Thread starter Susquatch
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DPittman
Ultra Member
Is that all?! How do you get by with such limited options?
140mower
Don
...... and he comes here thinking that we are going to talk him out of the next one....Yeah I know, just sort of happened over time, couldn't help myself
WOW!!
I’m very happy with my RF45 clone. If want to share modifications send me a PM
Time for a bit of analysis. What did we learn?
Wow! Talk about surprises. VERY different from the Lathe story.
My first big surprise was the obvious elephant in the shop. Over half of our active members have a big Knee mill. 41 out of 71 or 58%. Looked at another way, about half have floor machines and half have bench mills.
20 of 71 (28%) have square column mills - both small and large
16 of 71 (22%) have round column mills.
The other end of the spectrum had other surprises.
Only one member had a combination lathe/mill. Given that several of my friends have combination machines, this was a huge surprise for me. I had expected the waterfront to be split pretty evenly between large knee mills, square column, round column, and combination.
Only two members have bench knee mills. Given how much I love these machines, I was again quite surprised. But maybe I should not be. Bench top Knee mills are not easy to find.
I was not at all surprised to see how many (5 of 71) didn't have a mill at all. I've always believed a machinist should get a lathe first and then a mill. It looks like our membership thinks so too.
Only 6 members have CNC. I expected WWWAAAYY more CNC.
Oddly, all three members with x-y tables on their drill press also have regular mills too.
Looking at it from the other end, there are 98 mills spread across 66 members. an average of 1.5 mills per member having a mill.
All-in-all, another very informative survey even with all the surprises.
Obviously not perfect again, but I'm still happy we did it.
A HUGE Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Wow! Talk about surprises. VERY different from the Lathe story.
My first big surprise was the obvious elephant in the shop. Over half of our active members have a big Knee mill. 41 out of 71 or 58%. Looked at another way, about half have floor machines and half have bench mills.
20 of 71 (28%) have square column mills - both small and large
16 of 71 (22%) have round column mills.
The other end of the spectrum had other surprises.
Only one member had a combination lathe/mill. Given that several of my friends have combination machines, this was a huge surprise for me. I had expected the waterfront to be split pretty evenly between large knee mills, square column, round column, and combination.
Only two members have bench knee mills. Given how much I love these machines, I was again quite surprised. But maybe I should not be. Bench top Knee mills are not easy to find.
I was not at all surprised to see how many (5 of 71) didn't have a mill at all. I've always believed a machinist should get a lathe first and then a mill. It looks like our membership thinks so too.
Only 6 members have CNC. I expected WWWAAAYY more CNC.
Oddly, all three members with x-y tables on their drill press also have regular mills too.
Looking at it from the other end, there are 98 mills spread across 66 members. an average of 1.5 mills per member having a mill.
All-in-all, another very informative survey even with all the surprises.
Obviously not perfect again, but I'm still happy we did it.
A HUGE Thank you to everyone who contributed.
@Susquatch I'm not suggesting for a moment that I knew your mill survey would produse the analysis you arrived at, however over the past 5 years while convalescing from multable surgeries my life-line to the outside world was my PC mostly readng and following forum threads.
After two years of my being held in sick-bay it became obvious to me there were two main groups of mills users, the lighter hobby group and the heavy user group.
That said, your analysis provides excellant insight on forum mill users big or small where ever they be.
Well done and thank you on behalf of forum members.
After two years of my being held in sick-bay it became obvious to me there were two main groups of mills users, the lighter hobby group and the heavy user group.
That said, your analysis provides excellant insight on forum mill users big or small where ever they be.
Well done and thank you on behalf of forum members.
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Chipper5783
Super User
Maho MH600 is one of the little European multimills, with most of the available attachments (and a second one in case I ever need a replacement part, so far it is just parked in the corner)
Cincinnati 1D Toolmaster
Huron KU3 with the all angle head
Bridgeport VMC1000/22 4 axis
Cincinnati 1D Toolmaster
Huron KU3 with the all angle head
Bridgeport VMC1000/22 4 axis
Dabbler
ersatz engineer
nice machine!!
Hey David, could you update your count in the survey itself?