Or one could buy the $6000 Baileigh drill press posted earlier
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Milltronics CNC Mill, $5500, Pitt Meadows BC
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Or one could buy the $6000 Baileigh drill press posted earlier
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I have an earlier version of Milltronics Mill, sitting in storage (ten years now....) that my Ex figures is worth no less that $14K to her, as she saw one online, listed for $28K Cdn. I paid $1600... Cost me more in Postage, to get it home!
I'd rather have this one, as it has actual Z axis travel! Mine is a Partner 4, with a Cent V controller, total Z axis move is about 5-maybe 5 3/4 inches, as it is all in the head spindle. The Cent 6 controller upgrade for my Cent V version, is worth $2K US (probably + a bit, as I am well out of date!). Cent V ran a 386 single board computer on a backplane (yer gonna have to dig deep in Computer History to understand that, or have lived through it!), while the Cent 6 runs a Pentium 233! Trust me, when you are just looking for "Read the instruction, Follow the Instruction" as happens in CNC, it is a hell of an upgrade, though you may not even notice, depending what you actually do!
Gods above, but I would have thought the Unicorns were pooping out gold bars on me, had I had access to the travels this has.
Don't get me wrong, the one I bought was exactly ONE serial number away from the one I ran at work! I learned very well, and early in the game, how to swap tooling around so that all the tools came out pretty close to the same length so that the limits of the Z axis were not that hard. I made good, to great parts! Some are still flying to this day!
Milltronics always offered up really decent support, as long as you knew the serial number of the machine, and were willing to send me a lot of stuff that other companies expect to be paid and paid and paid for!
YMMV, but I would suggest that if this mill fits your needs and power capabilities, it might be a decent buy!
Jess my plug for a machine builder that made the machine I was pretty disappointed with, until I figured out how to make it dance for me!
FWIW, the problems we had with the Milltronics machine I had at work, amounted to a dead battery (that my half retarded boss forbade me to change out my self) and a couple incidences where the slop built up in an axis, resulting in the need to find and tighten up the backlash adjusters on the thrust bearings (which I did not bother said boss about!). That was in a seven year run, in that shop, and LOT of good or better parts! Good parts met the dimensional tolerances required. Better parts were...Better than that!
Just to clarify!
I'd rather have this one, as it has actual Z axis travel! Mine is a Partner 4, with a Cent V controller, total Z axis move is about 5-maybe 5 3/4 inches, as it is all in the head spindle. The Cent 6 controller upgrade for my Cent V version, is worth $2K US (probably + a bit, as I am well out of date!). Cent V ran a 386 single board computer on a backplane (yer gonna have to dig deep in Computer History to understand that, or have lived through it!), while the Cent 6 runs a Pentium 233! Trust me, when you are just looking for "Read the instruction, Follow the Instruction" as happens in CNC, it is a hell of an upgrade, though you may not even notice, depending what you actually do!
Gods above, but I would have thought the Unicorns were pooping out gold bars on me, had I had access to the travels this has.
Don't get me wrong, the one I bought was exactly ONE serial number away from the one I ran at work! I learned very well, and early in the game, how to swap tooling around so that all the tools came out pretty close to the same length so that the limits of the Z axis were not that hard. I made good, to great parts! Some are still flying to this day!
Milltronics always offered up really decent support, as long as you knew the serial number of the machine, and were willing to send me a lot of stuff that other companies expect to be paid and paid and paid for!
YMMV, but I would suggest that if this mill fits your needs and power capabilities, it might be a decent buy!
Jess my plug for a machine builder that made the machine I was pretty disappointed with, until I figured out how to make it dance for me!
FWIW, the problems we had with the Milltronics machine I had at work, amounted to a dead battery (that my half retarded boss forbade me to change out my self) and a couple incidences where the slop built up in an axis, resulting in the need to find and tighten up the backlash adjusters on the thrust bearings (which I did not bother said boss about!). That was in a seven year run, in that shop, and LOT of good or better parts! Good parts met the dimensional tolerances required. Better parts were...Better than that!
Just to clarify!
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