Purchasing First Vertical Mill...decisions!

[kingmt01]

Congrats

 

[brav65]

My advice would to buy every cool looking piece of tooling you can lay your hands on because whoever dies with the most tools win!

 

[kingmt01]

I thought who ever got the tools after the guy died wins.

My advice would to buy every cool looking piece of tooling you can lay your hands on because whoever dies with the most tools win!

 

[zmotorsports]

Well I pulled the trigger on a full size knee mill. PM-950S. Matt was awesome to work with and this machine seemed to stack up better than the grizzly G0796. Coming with 3 axis DRO and both x and y feed.

It is a bigger machine than I was originally looking at due to budget constraints. But after a call to Matt this one was right in the price range I was trying to stay. I have never heard anyone say that they wish they had bought a smaller mill! So this should fill my needs for a lifetime.

Thanks for all of the feedback from you guys. particularly mksj for the heads up on the grizzly. This got me to asking questions and I would not have found the PM-950 otherwise.

Thanks again! Now the long wait...12 weeks! Now trying to figure out what tooling I should start with. I have a Kurt vise coming with the mill and I have picked up a TE-CO clamp set. Suggestions are valued! I don't want to buy a bunch of stuff I won't really use. Just basic tooling and setup tools.

Congrats on the new mill. Just out of curiosity, what are the specs on the PM-950S? I am not familiar with that one from Matt.

Mike.

 

[Bnixon]

Here are the specs I got from Matt







Thanks for all the feedback on tooling. I am starting to make my list!

 

[kingmt01]

That's a big mill. Almost as big as mine.

One sheet says it has a 5 year warranty the other two only say 3 years.

 

[zmotorsports]

That's a fullsize BP clone by the looks of it. It also appears that the head is made in Taiwan so I am assuming the casting is Chinese manufatured?

Would like to see some pics of it as this must be a new mill Matt is carrying.

Mike.

 

[Bnixon]

I believe it is new and yes he said the casting my is in China but with higher quality materials and process than the Grizzly. And yes it is a full size BP clone


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[Bnixon]

Well after a long wait my mill finally arrived! Have uncrated it and got it on it's new base. I have done the initial wipe down and am waiting on my oil to arrive for my oiler. I am hoping to start tramming it in this next weekend.

I am sure I will have a ton of questions since this is my first mill and venture into machining in general?



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I need to get a pic of it on its new steel base. I will try and get some more pics tonight.

 

[dlane]

Your pics are red x's