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Happy Birthday to me: A milling machine in the garage!

This was dropped off on Saturday:





It's a 9 x 42 milling machine. While it looks rough in the pictures, it is actually in very good shape with little backlash and came to me at a very (very) good price. It was used by my boss in his woodshop for the last two years, hence the sawdust.

As a machinist and manufacturing engineer for the past 16+ years, I can't tell you how excited I am.

I haven't decided if I'll take it down to bare metal an repaint it, or just clean it up and use it as is. Either way, it'll probably be completely torn apart by Monday night to assess the situation.

Now I just need to find a decent lathe.

The CNC machining center should be here mid April, but that's another story.



Jim
Old 12-16-2007, 11:53 PM
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