Rockwell Vertical Knee Mill Milling Machine - $3,500 (Sacramento, CA)

[MrWhoopee]

Rockwell Vertical Knee Mill Milling Machine - tools - by owner - sale

Rockwell Vertical Knee Mill Milling Machine. Perfect size for a garage or small shop. If you are...

sacramento.craigslist.org

 

[C-Bag]

Wow, he must really like that mill!

 

[eeler1]

Curious what a reasonable price for this machine would be. That ain’t it, but what is?

 

[C-Bag]

What ever the market will bare. Clausing and Rockwell are the holy grail of hobby mills evidently. Always too rich for my blood.

 

[38super]

$500 - $1500, bit more with H mill option.

 

[talvare]

I suppose it just depends on the value a person places on older American iron. That mill kind of compares with many Asian machines available today. Like this: https://www.grizzly.com/products/Grizzly-8-x-30-1-1-2-HP-Vertical-Mill-with-Power-Feed/G0731

Ted

 

[CuriousRambler]

Man, that'd be a SWEET mill. If it was 1/3 the price, I'd probably have to grab it.

 

[Janderso]

Good size
I haven’t seen many of these
Yeah, too much $$

 

[Janderso]

You ok Mr Whoopee??

 

[Aaron_W]

These are close in size to the Clausing 8520, so desirable to the same people. From what I've seen they sell for a little less than the Clausings, although I would think they would be a little more desirable since they have an R-8 spindle, are supposedly a tad heavier. Some have an additional horizontal spindle as well.

Just a guess based on the few I've seen and Clausing prices but $1500-2500 seems to be typical for one in good shape with minimal tooling. This one does have a powerfeed, and looks like maybe a vintage vise so the higher end of that range is probably reasonable.

A new Chinese mill this size sells for $3500-5000 so half that for a good vintage USA mill doesn't seem unreasonable to me.