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A bit of a gloating post - finally picked up my first mill today! Been wanting one for a while but haven't been aggressively looking. However, last week a friend of mine connected me with one of their friends who was selling one. It was solid and price was fair so I bought it in a heartbeat. We also negotiated in a Kurt vise, dividing head, spindexer, a few tool holders, and some end mills/fly cutters/etc...
The mill is an Alliant manufactured in 1986. This one has ballscrew leads, servos on the X/Y, Proto Trak Plus controller, and 1-shot lube. Motor is 2hp, 3ph infinitely variable speed. I wasn't intentionally looking for a 2-axis quasi-CNC, but will do the job (DRO and power X were on my must haves, so this fits the bill). Backlash is nearly nil and the ways have zero visible wear anywhere in the travel; the original scraping looks new. Meehanite casting.
Moved it today; took a few hours due to getting out of a tight location, but otherwise uneventful. Skid, pallet jack, and drop-bed trailer made it pretty easy; money well spent.
Plan on going through the tooling tomorrow and picking up the RPC in a couple weeks. Until then: some partial disassembly to give it a really good cleaning. If anyone has any tips or particulars with these mills, let me know what I got myself into!
The mill is an Alliant manufactured in 1986. This one has ballscrew leads, servos on the X/Y, Proto Trak Plus controller, and 1-shot lube. Motor is 2hp, 3ph infinitely variable speed. I wasn't intentionally looking for a 2-axis quasi-CNC, but will do the job (DRO and power X were on my must haves, so this fits the bill). Backlash is nearly nil and the ways have zero visible wear anywhere in the travel; the original scraping looks new. Meehanite casting.
Moved it today; took a few hours due to getting out of a tight location, but otherwise uneventful. Skid, pallet jack, and drop-bed trailer made it pretty easy; money well spent.
Plan on going through the tooling tomorrow and picking up the RPC in a couple weeks. Until then: some partial disassembly to give it a really good cleaning. If anyone has any tips or particulars with these mills, let me know what I got myself into!
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