Not annoying at all. Keep posting. These are my thoughts The basic mill/drill is worth $500 give or take. The 3 vises depending on brand is around $300. Used end mills are all over the map but I would not pay more that a buck or two apiece and only then if they appear to be in good condition. My last garage sale find was a coffee can full for $10. In my humble and unknowledgeable opinion I prefer ER collets over the 5c collets in the picture. Why? because I can use them on my lathe and the mill/drill. I paid around $100 on Ebay for a complete set of ER32 metric collets and mt2 and r8 adapters for the lathe and mill/drill respectively. Don't know what the stuff is in the upper right corner.
I think that the Mill/drill in Buelton for $250 is the best deal that has been posted so far. Any word back from that seller? It is worth the drive.
Not to change to subject but did you hear back from the seller of the lathe down in Warner Springs?
Here's another one. Thoughts?:
Extremely well made Enco (1994 Taiwan built) mill drill. Almost like new. Comparable to Jet mill drill @ $4000 plus. (See https://www.mscdirect.com/product/details/35295237). The bed is 24" x9", twelve speed belt drive, two horse single phase motor. It comes with three vices and a lot of misc tooling that would cost around $1000. The mill and tooling have had very little use and have been very well cared for. It's a steal at $2000. Complete with tooling, cabinet and chip pan
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Motor has a date stamp of 199X (can't read the last number at all in the picture). Seems a bit on the high side, but it looks like it's in good shape. I can get a Grizzly (G0705 with stand) for around $2,000 delivered. How much is the tooling (vise, bits, etc) really worth? A vise, collet set and bits are about $500 delivered. What are those bits in the upper right?
I'm thinking this mill package is worth more like $1,000-$1,300. Thoughts?
These mill/drills typically have an R8 spindle and whatever is in the spindle is held in place with a drawbar. A drawbar is a fancy name for a threaded rod that goes down through the quill and screws into what is in the spindle to keep it in place. My best guess is that the drill chuck has an R8 arbor. Personally I would not worry about not having a top. The pulleys are way up in the air. I have to stand on a step stool to change the belts. I don't have the top on my mill/drill. It would take some elbow grease to clean up the $250 mill/drill. I would find out what it has in tooling that comes with it. In the 3rd picture you can see a handle, a rotary base for the vise, a bunch of T nuts and what appears to be bolts and hold downs. If all he uses it for is to drill holes there probably isn't much in the way of tooling.
Hard to say what the $2000 mill/drill might be worth. It is bright and shiny and does not appear to have any problems. If all the tooling is shown in the pictures it does not have much in the way of tooling. All depends on how much of a premium you are willing to pay for bright and shiny. I am retired and a card carrying member of the independently poor. So I watch my pennies pretty closely. I rarely pay for bright and shiny.
To compare the two I would make a spread sheet with what I would want in the way of tooling in the first column. In the 2nd column I would list what the $2000 mill/drill has and in the 3rd column the cost to add what is missing. In the 4th and 5th columns I would do the same for the $250 mill/drill.
It will be interesting to see what you finally end up with.