Replacement Milling Machine

[buflow]

Great post, I have been looking for a hobby mill, trying to decide between a mini and a full size. Lots of want-tos, little space and dollars. This helps with the decision, thanks for the pictures and the great post.

 

[nickmckinney]

.....Good machines but they're not popular for some reason. We try to offer different things -and sometimes it's a success and sometimes not.....

IMHO coming from a business owner designing and selling retail products - if you put a fancy name plate on the top it would sell more. Many times its not the actual specs but the initial "image" that sells or kills a product. Take a look at McIntosh stereo products to see what a simple fancy plate of glass has done for their product sales over the years. Also - IMHO and many will not agree, but white on a manual machine seems to look "cheaper" than battleship grey? If I was selling the machines in this market they would have really fancy aluminum name plates, fancy manuals, and the best paint job I could afford.

 

[Mister Ed]

Nice machine. I also just purchased an 8x36. Mine is a 10 year old Jet, that came out of a shop as clean as yours. Mill looks no more that a couple years old. I have not had a chance to do much on it yet. But what little I have used it ... man ... what an improvement over my old mil/drill.

I'm curious to hear how the VS works on this unit? 3ph with VFD? Or is it a VS pulley system? That is perhaps the one think I do not like on the Jet ... the limited speeds and having to change the belt.

 

[zmotorsports]

Nice looking milling machine there Patrick. A friend of mine has a Jet 836 and loves it. He has had it for many years and turns out some very nice work with it.

Mike.