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Hi there,
I got a mill that looked interesting at a glance and also dirty cheap so I bought it, the guy had dismantled it for transport and never put it back together again.
So it turned to be a sort of weird machine called Van Norman 12, then a further research shown that the collets are as weird as the machine itself and spindle cone is maybe worn, I have also a worn collet and a nasty welded drawbar.
So what should be my next move? send spindle to a machine shop to get it bored to a commercial collet size? I have read about some guys gringing it to R8
Assuming that spindle is yet useful like that, can I get Van Norman collets somewhere?
Should I part it out?
Since I paid $400 and scrap iron kg is paid $1.5, I am guessing that I would be able to get around of $1500 from scrap yard so , should I scrap it?
Thanks in advance
I got a mill that looked interesting at a glance and also dirty cheap so I bought it, the guy had dismantled it for transport and never put it back together again.
So it turned to be a sort of weird machine called Van Norman 12, then a further research shown that the collets are as weird as the machine itself and spindle cone is maybe worn, I have also a worn collet and a nasty welded drawbar.
So what should be my next move? send spindle to a machine shop to get it bored to a commercial collet size? I have read about some guys gringing it to R8
Assuming that spindle is yet useful like that, can I get Van Norman collets somewhere?
Should I part it out?
Since I paid $400 and scrap iron kg is paid $1.5, I am guessing that I would be able to get around of $1500 from scrap yard so , should I scrap it?
Thanks in advance