My dad and I just bought this '64 Cincinatti Cintimill 205 horizontal milling machine with a universal saddle (it pivots 45 degrees). Neither of us have any machining experience and are pretty excited about it. We got a vertical attachment with it as well. This machine was bought new by AL power in '64 and has been at the Forkland, AL power plant ever since. For the past ten years at least it has sat untouched in their shop amongst a dozen or so other machine tools. When we went to look at it it fired right up and all the feeds work as they should. There was one gouge in the table.
As you can see they put it on a pallet which made moving it into the garage from the flatbed trailer very interesting. I'll post a pick later to show an idea of what we did. It involved crow bars, steel risers, steel plate and two old interlocking army bridge sections used as ramps. No one was killed thank God. I did learn that you don't have to have a crane or forklift to move 4000 lbs of steel. Just lots of time (4 hrs) a little know-how (machinist friend who's moved a few mills and lathes) pipes, crow bars, jackhammer chisel, chains, chain binders, a come-along and a glass of sweet tea.
I've already been browsing the projects and gunsmithing forums. Once I do get some experience and a little skill I plan to build a 6" STI in .40 S&W from just a frame and bald unique slide. Milling capabilities are the only thing keeping me from my own build at this point. More pics to come as I get his old gal cleaned up and ready for work.
I started examining (taking apart) the table assembly and there is dried up gunk all inside the workings. So now we are going to tear it down, clean it up and put it back together. Hopefully by then the RPC will be ready and we can start making chips by summer 2012.
As you can see they put it on a pallet which made moving it into the garage from the flatbed trailer very interesting. I'll post a pick later to show an idea of what we did. It involved crow bars, steel risers, steel plate and two old interlocking army bridge sections used as ramps. No one was killed thank God. I did learn that you don't have to have a crane or forklift to move 4000 lbs of steel. Just lots of time (4 hrs) a little know-how (machinist friend who's moved a few mills and lathes) pipes, crow bars, jackhammer chisel, chains, chain binders, a come-along and a glass of sweet tea.
I've already been browsing the projects and gunsmithing forums. Once I do get some experience and a little skill I plan to build a 6" STI in .40 S&W from just a frame and bald unique slide. Milling capabilities are the only thing keeping me from my own build at this point. More pics to come as I get his old gal cleaned up and ready for work.
I started examining (taking apart) the table assembly and there is dried up gunk all inside the workings. So now we are going to tear it down, clean it up and put it back together. Hopefully by then the RPC will be ready and we can start making chips by summer 2012.