Found me a nice Jet JVM-836-3

Chip

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Look what followed me home...

Made in Taiwan, not too big, not too small, appears to have been used on aluminum exclusively. A used 3/4 knee mill within my start up budget. I'm happy.

Just need to decide on a suitable VFD, add some basic tooling, plug her in, and go!

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Looks good! Jet mills are a B'port clone but every bit as good from what I've heard. Have fun and be safe unloading it.
 
I used an engine hoist and a pallet jack and got it unloaded without incident, but it took a lot of head scratching and was a royal pain in the butt. Pretty nervous about it the whole way.

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That looks real nice. I have a few Jet woodworking tools. I think they are all top notch machines.
Dave
 
Glad you got it down safely, really glad, but that's too much for an engine hoist. No matter how many tons it says on the boom, if one of those bottom casters goes, your whole machine is going down. Move machinery in steps, head/ram/turret, knee/table asbly, main column.

Interesting Y axis DRO slide, it looks round.
 
That's a pretty impressive lift. I have a new respect for a HF engine hoist, that's about 2300# hanging on there. I guess one of these days I'll have to see what one of them will really take before it fails.

Nice looking mill, glad you got it home safely.
 
That's the shot of it just after I pulled the trailer out from underneath. I then positioned the pallet jack between the legs of the hoist and lowered it as slooooooowly as possible. once on the pallet jack I was able to move it around relatively easy. You're right, that's a wise suggestion about taking it apart, but I don't think I have what it takes yet to fully disassemble a knee mill.

According to the manual the JVM-836 is 1.5HP and only weighs 1500lbs.

I believe it is a Newall glass scale DRO. Still works though. Also has a working Mitutoyo Quill DRO add-on.

Right now I have a new X-powerfeed on order along with an R8 collet set and a clamp set.

Any suggestions on the ideal VFD to use?
 
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