WTB - Bench Mill

opensourcefan

opensourcefan

OSF
Need something with more substantial in all regards compared to my mini 4x16.

Preferably 110v but single phase 220 okay as well.
6" ish Y travel,
16"+ X travel
Min 1000w motor
Variable or multi speed
Prefer MT3 but R8 is fine as well
Fwd and reverse
Vintage or recent.

I've been looking at the following: Busy Bee CX601, Precision Mathews PM-25MV and PM-727M, Grizzly G0759 and G0761, Aliexpress
 
140mower

140mower

Don
.... probably for the same reason that I wouldn't mind replacing my little mill with another with mt3.... I already have quite a bit of tooling and it fits both lathes as well. If I went r8, I would have to start again on the tooling purchases and would be machine specific.
 
gerritv

gerritv

Gerrit
But you don't actually need a lot of collets. Esp if you put things like drill chucks on 3/8" and 1/2" straight shanks. Buy HSS cutters with 3/8 or 1/2 shanks as well and you onlly need those 2 collets.
For everything else buy an ER20 or ER25 straight shank collet chuck for all of the misc. in between sizes.
 
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