El Hefe Lives

Chris Bettis

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Well I've been pretty quiet about things here on the forums lately. I had a few problems with my initial 12z mill, I will not get into any details. But I no longer own that machine.
Also as some of you know, Bill,(wrmiller) has recently upgraded to a knee mill and sold his 12z. After the problems with the first mill I was somewhat reluctant at first. But after much thought I decided that it was no longer a charter oak machine after all of the modifications and re working Bill has done on the machine. So I am proud to announce I am the new owner, unfortunately the Bill said I have to come up with a new name for it. (undecided). But I've been extremely happy with the machine so far. And am proud to call it mine. 9a372a809ab0dd07a872a632f3053dea.jpg

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Nice. Congrats. I'm sure Bill made it much better than original which will aid in the fun factor of using it.

Mike.
 
Long live 'The Boss'! ;)

You can proudly claim that you own a pretty much one-of-a-kind mill. (he's already experienced how powerful this thing is after smoking a couple of end mills...)

You can call it El Hefe, I don't mind. Just don't call it the "Miller Machine Works". ;)
 
Nice. Congrats. I'm sure Bill made it much better than original which will aid in the fun factor of using it.

Mike.
Yes this thing is awesome, as Bill mentioned I already smoked an endmill cutting the chuck key 7/16 4 flute hss in 4140 it was going so smooth I decided to take a heavier cut, then things started glowing a dull orange.. oops. All the while the mill never knew it was cutting anything.

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I encouraged Bill to add some glowing eyes to El Hefe! Congratulations on you new beast.
 
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