Eric
Thanks for the tips. This thing has an 18"x6" x-y travel, so it's not
the little one. I had been considering the Grizzly mini-mill, and this is
apparently a bigger machine.
I forgot to ask about a vise. The one that usually comes with these is
supposed to be junk.
But again, I'm not talking about high precision requirements. the few
occasions where precision would be an issue, I think I could work around the
problem.
I expect to buy it, unless it's been totally abused.
I will look for the mailing list.
Rex Burkheimer
Parts Plus Marketing Director WM Automotive Whse., Fort Worth TX
"Never attribute to evil that which can be explained by stupidity" -George
Pyle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Murray" <ericm@lne.com>
To: "Rex Burkheimer" <rex@wmautomotive.com>
Cc: "shop-talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: used ENCO Mill-Drill - good deal?
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:10:22AM -0600, Rex Burkheimer wrote:
> >
> > I'm going to look at an ENCO Mill Drill this week. Don't know the model
> > number, but the owner says it's equivalent to the current #105-1132.
It's a
> > benchtop model, comes with R-8 collets and lots of tooling. It has no
power
> > feeds on X-Y. 5" power travel on the quill. Asking price is $400.
> > My intended purpose is light-duty hobby work, probably mostly used
for
> > aluminum brackets on racecar projects. High precision will not be much
of an
> > issue.
> > Does this sound like a reasonable deal? Any problem areas I should
look
> > for?
>
>
> There's a mill-drill mailing list somewhere.
>
> These machines often require some setup (cleaning
> cosmoline and machining chips out of everything, setting
> the gibs, etc). If you're lucky, the seller did that already.
> If not, you'll have to do it.
>
> The bench top machines have one problem vs knee mills, that is
> that when you move the head on the column, you have to re-align
> ("tram") the head. And the table travel is smaller.
>
> A set of R-8 collets, some mills, vice, hold-downs would cost at least
> $200 if you buy the cheapest stuff.
>
> You can get a power table feed for it.
>
> If I ran into this, and it wasn't trashed, I'd buy it.
> Even if it turns out to be too small, you could sell
> it again for what you paid for it. But I've only used
> a Bridgeport in a machining class, so I might be full of it.
>
>
> Eric
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