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- Mar 22, 2013
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Gentlemen,
Being new to the forum I thought I would start out my postings showing my machinery. Since the early 70's I had one of the first round column Enco mills. It served me well but eventually I got tired of having to pick up starting points every time the head was moved, like many others. I had made some extra money doing side jobs so I started looking for a replacement machine. The prime requisite was that it had to be broken into manageable enough pieces to get it into my basement shop. That pretty much ruled out Brideports and their clones. I know, many people have done it I just didn't want to take the chance. After much searching I settled on this machine. It was delivered to my door, disassembled, hauled down to my basement shop and reassembled. I have since mounted digitals on it from DRO pros. So far I'm quite happy with it. The nicest feature is the knee, naturally after coming from a round column mill. The next thing is the variable speed. Although it doesn't spin as fast as I'd like I do have a high speed spindle that I can use for small mills.
gbritnell
Being new to the forum I thought I would start out my postings showing my machinery. Since the early 70's I had one of the first round column Enco mills. It served me well but eventually I got tired of having to pick up starting points every time the head was moved, like many others. I had made some extra money doing side jobs so I started looking for a replacement machine. The prime requisite was that it had to be broken into manageable enough pieces to get it into my basement shop. That pretty much ruled out Brideports and their clones. I know, many people have done it I just didn't want to take the chance. After much searching I settled on this machine. It was delivered to my door, disassembled, hauled down to my basement shop and reassembled. I have since mounted digitals on it from DRO pros. So far I'm quite happy with it. The nicest feature is the knee, naturally after coming from a round column mill. The next thing is the variable speed. Although it doesn't spin as fast as I'd like I do have a high speed spindle that I can use for small mills.
gbritnell