Hi guys. I happen to stumble across a milling machine yesterday in a parking lot in Sparks, Nevada From a man who was about to throw it in the dumpster. I caught his attention and asked him why he was throwing it away, and if I could have it. He stated that “oh it’s a piece of crap it doesn’t work, it doesn’t turn on so on and so forth” but I ended up with it and it came home with me. I spent less than 45 minutes on it. I rewired the switch put the motor back on it lubricated the ways, made sure the spindle was not seized and fired it up. With my knowledge and experience and the fact that I’ve got a 3/4 sized Bridgeport a Enco clone and a pretty decent 1236 lathe, I’m relatively, experienced at least enough to get myself into trouble anyways.
My predicament is that I’m having trouble finding a manufacture or a maker of this milling machine. After I got it running, I took it apart to see how damaged it was or not damage turns out that it seems it’s been used maybe three times. It’s absolutely perfect. The ways are spotless. There’s no scratching etc. and yeah, pretty good score for free. It’s quite small the bed is about 6” x 18” and the bed rotates so X and Y axis rotate similar to a rotary table. The lead screws and nuts are perfect so I’ve taken it apart, cleaned everything re-painted it in Industrial gray and will be reassembling it tomorrow. I’d like to use it just as a bench top unit to do small things and maybe teach the neighbor high school kid to use some tools instead of playing those damned video games.
If anybody has information on it or has any idea of its quality or where I can get parts for it (I built classic cars for a living, customized and restorations so I’m pretty savvy with finding parts for obsolete anything) so that shouldn’t be a problem once I find out what make it is.
Anyways, I would greatly appreciate any information You guys would be willing to give me about this machine. Thank you very much and check out the photos
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My predicament is that I’m having trouble finding a manufacture or a maker of this milling machine. After I got it running, I took it apart to see how damaged it was or not damage turns out that it seems it’s been used maybe three times. It’s absolutely perfect. The ways are spotless. There’s no scratching etc. and yeah, pretty good score for free. It’s quite small the bed is about 6” x 18” and the bed rotates so X and Y axis rotate similar to a rotary table. The lead screws and nuts are perfect so I’ve taken it apart, cleaned everything re-painted it in Industrial gray and will be reassembling it tomorrow. I’d like to use it just as a bench top unit to do small things and maybe teach the neighbor high school kid to use some tools instead of playing those damned video games.
If anybody has information on it or has any idea of its quality or where I can get parts for it (I built classic cars for a living, customized and restorations so I’m pretty savvy with finding parts for obsolete anything) so that shouldn’t be a problem once I find out what make it is.
Anyways, I would greatly appreciate any information You guys would be willing to give me about this machine. Thank you very much and check out the photos
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