New 12z Owner Here

Hmmm...that's not a bad price for what you get.
 
No its really not the capability of a functional machine shop plus a functional chassis fabrication and engine building in one place. The possibilities are really endless to what can be accomplished.

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Beautiful stand and envious office you have there, Chris.
 
Franko said:
Beautiful stand and envious office you have there, Chris.
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Thanks! I actually got heck of a deal on both. A friend of mine is a welding apprentice, the shop he works for does large structural stuff. Most often 40-60' stuff. Their scrap pile is full of 10 -12' long sticks. He was able to get all of the tube and plate for free so the stand only cost about 100 dollars for casters levelers and paint in total.
The office on the other hand is actually a showoff box that matco built for trade shows in 2014. Im told they only made 10 of them in the color combo I have. Anyway the msrp is 23k on that box. I paid 9k plus got 7k on trade in for my old tool box. So it only cost 2 grand for the toolbox and she is beautifull!

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Got a little work done today. However not as much as I wanted to. First I layed out and drilled the holes for the mill to bolt to the stand. The holes were drilled to 5/8ths this will allow a small amount of misalignment. 496acb6c5e922df106653d626f93d154.jpg

I also remembered somewhere i read filling the tubes with sand will help with vibration resistance. So i bought some play sand from the local hardware store. I figure even if it doesn't do much for vibration. It will add some ballast and weight to the stand. b8475bda17683032a2ceaed19fc7f48a.jpg
After they were filled and tamped, I capped the ends and ground the welds smooth.
After I finished that I grabbed a da sander and started cleaning the scale and prepping for paint unfortunately it's beginning to get cold outside to cold for paint so I just got it prepped with scotch brite, and wax & grease remover. Here are a few other pictures. 2490e10da59882a5a092c9d8dbc2db32.jpgc0a4ff9ea910be80e7b1821d87200376.jpg523fad8fd5bb305dc9896d576ff5baac.jpg0df33942a21c0385047d19ef08701743.jpgdfe4d12b24b186e166212f2a0b77bb86.jpg

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maker of things said:
Are you doing a chip pan? I have one drawn if you need it.
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I am making a chip tray actually. Its a simple 16 gauge 48x36 sheet bent at 45 deg 2" in on all edges and mitered altogether at the corners, with a large rectangle hole in the center and the whole thing is offset 1" towards the rear for handwheel clearance. No pictures yet because my dad is doing that project. And actually hasn't started yet.

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After I received and set up my mill, I realized that I couldn't get to the Y-axis nut to adjust backlash. So I hacked a hole in the bottom of the chip tray, only to later realize that I can come in from the back of the column with a long 3/8" extension to do the same thing. :(

Haven't decided on whether or not to order a new tray...
 
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