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Update:
I am no longer the mill-less!
After my last post on June 7th stating that I was likely going to purchase an 833TV new from PM I decided that I would place my order in the morning and I made up my order inventory.
I woke up on the 8th and saw that I had a message from David Best. A friend of his had just posted a mill with tooling for sale on Craigslist. This was a machine upon which David himself had installed the DRO's, and was a known entity as to the machines usage history.
Long story short, I made an offer that was accepted and arranged a pickup date/time. I left my house at 0500 on the 10th and arrived in Bend Oregon that afternoon, loaded and got back home at 0300 on the 11th.
The mill is a Rong Fu 45 N2F with a Newall DRO for XY and a Mitutoyo DRO for the quill. The mill has had a motor upgrade with VFD enabling a speed range up to 2800+ RPM. The mill also came with a lot of tooling as well as a very nice stainless steel rolling tool cabinet. There is a Kurt D688 vice, an Albrecht 1/32-1/2 Jacobs chuck, R8 collet set, R8 ER40 collet chuck, ER40 collet blocks and a 3-26mm ER40 collet set (most still wrapped). Numerous extra hard and soft jaws for the Kurt, parallels, speed handle, gauge blocks and much more.
There's no way I would have been made aware of this deal without the assistance of David! Thanks again David!!
Here's the load ready to leave Bend (I got a couple of sheet rock carts the seller was wanting to get rid of for a friend that is a dry waller.)
Got the crated mill into the shop:
Ready to get up on the stand!
Started cleaning it up and assessing the machine.
I have a lot of re-arranging to do in my small shop to make proper space, and I still have the 1340GT to get in! I need to get my shop addition (metal working area) built, but that will likely be a couple of years down the road.
I am no longer the mill-less!
After my last post on June 7th stating that I was likely going to purchase an 833TV new from PM I decided that I would place my order in the morning and I made up my order inventory.
I woke up on the 8th and saw that I had a message from David Best. A friend of his had just posted a mill with tooling for sale on Craigslist. This was a machine upon which David himself had installed the DRO's, and was a known entity as to the machines usage history.
Long story short, I made an offer that was accepted and arranged a pickup date/time. I left my house at 0500 on the 10th and arrived in Bend Oregon that afternoon, loaded and got back home at 0300 on the 11th.
The mill is a Rong Fu 45 N2F with a Newall DRO for XY and a Mitutoyo DRO for the quill. The mill has had a motor upgrade with VFD enabling a speed range up to 2800+ RPM. The mill also came with a lot of tooling as well as a very nice stainless steel rolling tool cabinet. There is a Kurt D688 vice, an Albrecht 1/32-1/2 Jacobs chuck, R8 collet set, R8 ER40 collet chuck, ER40 collet blocks and a 3-26mm ER40 collet set (most still wrapped). Numerous extra hard and soft jaws for the Kurt, parallels, speed handle, gauge blocks and much more.
There's no way I would have been made aware of this deal without the assistance of David! Thanks again David!!
Here's the load ready to leave Bend (I got a couple of sheet rock carts the seller was wanting to get rid of for a friend that is a dry waller.)
Got the crated mill into the shop:
Ready to get up on the stand!
Started cleaning it up and assessing the machine.
I have a lot of re-arranging to do in my small shop to make proper space, and I still have the 1340GT to get in! I need to get my shop addition (metal working area) built, but that will likely be a couple of years down the road.