A friend of mine is selling this and offered it to me for 2000.00
I ran 2 of these for 6 years through high school and college. Nice pickup. Yes you need itA friend of mine is selling this and offered it to me for 2000.00View attachment 1715767504View attachment 1715767505View attachment 1715767506View attachment 1715767507View attachment 1715767508View attachment 1715767509View attachment 1715767510
buddy bought one and po loaded it with forklift. got to buddys house and cherry picker would not even begin to unload it. neighbor 1/4 mile away had fork lift and unloaded it with out a problem. leave it in 1 pc if you can.
One thing I found when I was looking at vertical mills is that many of the smaller mills do not have power down feed (which is probably not a drawback if you aren't planning on boring something) and they don't have a power table feed. I'd check if that Enco has either and if it doesn't, and that's not a big deal, $1000 is a good price.
Well being sick and this one being 2.5 hours from me I may be passing on it. Found this one (way smaller) for 1000.00 five miles from home.
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The round column mills shown in post #16 are POS compared to that Bridgeport. Not enough room under the head to do much once you have a vise mounted and tooling in the spindle. They also lose tram when the head is raised or lowered and you have to recenter over the hole you were working. Big PITA. I would strongly suggest going after the BP. $2k is a good price if it isn't totally clapped out and the step heads are
more trouble free than the vari-speed heads. Comes with a VFD too which is hard to beat.
Did you buy the mill?
Is he listing if for public sale if you did not buy it?