What is this mill?

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Go this as part of a combo purchase with some other equipment and have been using it for the last couple years. Still have no idea what is. Looked for busy bee lc-30a on line and got zip. Would love to get some documentation for it and perhaps figure out a good selling price for it?

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it looks like an updated version of my 1984 Menards 30 mill---Daveaaablade pics 024.jpg aaablade pics 025.jpg Davids machine pics 6-30-2013 011.jpg
 
Looks like a Busy Bee LC-30A to me... Looks like it might have been built around May of 1980... 8^)
 
Thanks for the post. It is Very close. Your lay out is what I see most. Mine says manufactured 1980 and my vertical feed lock is on the handle shaft vise the knob. My indicator is also centered.
 
Bob Korves said:
Looks like a Busy Bee LC-30A to me... 8^)
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Funny. You wouldn't happen to know anything about it? I have done a lot of searching but have yet to find anything about this particular unit.
 
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Well for sure it's no older than 1976 -- that's when BusyBee Tools was established. They're still in Vancouver as well as a few other provinces. Most machines are under their Craftex banner now.

-frank
 
It is pretty easy to nail down. It is an Asian import round column bench mill. Many thousands of them were made and exported, and lots of different nameplates were put on them. I looks like it is all there from what I can see. If it runs it is ready for sale. For price, perhaps ask $500 (U.S.) and take the best offer. You can find documentation for similar machines on Grizzly and download it for free.
 
It's an RF-25/30 clone.

They were made under multiple names and distributed by multiple different importers.

A great site is:

http://rick.sparber.org/ma.htm

He has a ton of tips/tricks and suggestions about these Round Column Mill/Drills
 
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