Please help me identify this milling machine! Help needed!

Now go buy a lottery ticket!
Every 40-50 years I stumble on a deal like that.
 
tcooper27 said:
Did it come with some goofy US ski team and Visa stickers on it?

Edit: For context, I’m pretty sure I looked at this machine about a month ago when I was buying a planer/jointer machine from a CNC/fab shop that was moving from Reno to Sparks.

They said it was in the shop when they got it and it had been sitting up above their forge for the last 20 years. It looked like it too, there was a about centimeter of caked on soot. The stickers on the belt guard were the only thing recognizable.
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He’d bought it from Dave at that shop. A few days later there he is throwing it away…

I go to Dave’s shop once and a while to pick up scrap, sell machines, or help around the shop, buy equipment and whatnot. Last machine I sold was a 16” shaper. Weighed over 6,000 pounds. That’s was a fun move…..

Anyways, I was there for a Bridgeport and he decided not to sell it. Bummer cuz I live less than a mile away. . I saw the little guy on fb and was thinking that might work for me temporarily till I get bigger machines. With the work that is flowing into my shop, I REALLY need bigger gear!
Found a nice 1336 gear head yesterday in gardenerville and it was gone in about three micro seconds at 2300$.
I just sold my 1985 enco 3/4mill and my gnarbor fright 1236 gap bed belt drive with threaded spindle for well, a lot. I’d rather not say because I may have someone from here knocking on my door asking me for a job to sell their machines for the prices I’ve been getting for stuff.

Last car I sold (I do classics and machines for a living and the wife vintage clothing). A 1989 Toyota Corolla sr-5 original owner car, 150,000 miles, red velour interior, white exterior. I polished it up, after buying it for a song. Total cost involved 400$. Sold for $6700. A frickin 89 front wheel drive Corolla?!? Insanity.


But yes. That’s the machine with the stickers. Ugh I hate vinyl or paper stickers. Just hire a damn sign painter. I’m a purist, I’d you ever see me with a vinyl sticker on my car. Slap me. Please.

The machine was disassembled, cleaned, except the spindle and didn’t change the belt. Anything over half its potential speed, it RATTLES to beat the band. I have extensive experience and knowledge in bearings, inclining second operations on locomotive cooling system bearings that are impossible to find, the company that hired me was doing 4 per hour…..I was doing 60 per hour including boxing and tagging. They went through QC and the cad drawing I was given at the start of the job (and I made a special jig for my lathe so there was no inconsistencies) ended up having the snapring groove measured off the end ge of the od bearing surface and in the cad drawing was shown as off the Id shoulder. 1500 bearings and one hell of a uptick in income at 10$ a hit. They F’d up so bad and left me holding a bag of sheit. (Blows raspberry’s)

So looks like the head and spindle is coming apart too, clean it and replace with decent c2 bearings or something. Idk. Undecided. My custom compressor build is priority right now cuz I have no air.

Cheers
 
We-R-138 said:
He’d bought it from Dave at that shop. A few days later there he is throwing it away…

I go to Dave’s shop once and a while to pick up scrap, sell machines, or help around the shop, buy equipment and whatnot. Last machine I sold was a 16” shaper. Weighed over 6,000 pounds. That’s was a fun move…..

Anyways, I was there for a Bridgeport and he decided not to sell it. Bummer cuz I live less than a mile away. . I saw the little guy on fb and was thinking that might work for me temporarily till I get bigger machines. With the work that is flowing into my shop, I REALLY need bigger gear!
Found a nice 1336 gear head yesterday in gardenerville and it was gone in about three micro seconds at 2300$.
I just sold my 1985 enco 3/4mill and my gnarbor fright 1236 gap bed belt drive with threaded spindle for well, a lot. I’d rather not say because I may have someone from here knocking on my door asking me for a job to sell their machines for the prices I’ve been getting for stuff.

Last car I sold (I do classics and machines for a living and the wife vintage clothing). A 1989 Toyota Corolla sr-5 original owner car, 150,000 miles, red velour interior, white exterior. I polished it up, after buying it for a song. Total cost involved 400$. Sold for $6700. A frickin 89 front wheel drive Corolla?!? Insanity.


But yes. That’s the machine with the stickers. Ugh I hate vinyl or paper stickers. Just hire a damn sign painter. I’m a purist, I’d you ever see me with a vinyl sticker on my car. Slap me. Please.

The machine was disassembled, cleaned, except the spindle and didn’t change the belt. Anything over half its potential speed, it RATTLES to beat the band. I have extensive experience and knowledge in bearings, inclining second operations on locomotive cooling system bearings that are impossible to find, the company that hired me was doing 4 per hour…..I was doing 60 per hour including boxing and tagging. They went through QC and the cad drawing I was given at the start of the job (and I made a special jig for my lathe so there was no inconsistencies) ended up having the snapring groove measured off the end ge of the od bearing surface and in the cad drawing was shown as off the Id shoulder. 1500 bearings and one hell of a uptick in income at 10$ a hit. They F’d up so bad and left me holding a bag of sheit. (Blows raspberry’s)

So looks like the head and spindle is coming apart too, clean it and replace with decent c2 bearings or something. Idk. Undecided. My custom compressor build is priority right now cuz I have no air.

Cheers
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Yep Dave was who I talked to about it, nice guy.

I’ve had old belts harden up and “remember” their shape and cause vibration at speed. Might be worth driving the spindle directly with something to see if it’s the belt.
 
tcooper27 said:
Yep Dave was who I talked to about it, nice guy.

I’ve had old belts harden up and “remember” their shape and cause vibration at speed. Might be worth driving the spindle directly with something to see if it’s the belt.
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I picked up a few different pores transmission belts (the green gates belts) in a few different sizes today. It had a 31” belt on it and I couldn’t get the belt to tension properly on the pulleys on their perspective grooves. So it would need to be one lower groove on the spindle and one higher on the motor.

Was there a tensioner on these mills? Or was it just like changing the belt on a vw beetle. While it’s running throw a screw driver between the belt and pulley and it’ll pop off and then the reverse to install.


Lol joking. Just curious is there is a tensioner or a way to tension. Cuz it seems there isn’t one or?

Thanks for the input everyone
 
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