Bridgeport Mill---$800.00

[oldldh]

http://eauclaire.craigslist.org/tls/4084575536.html

I know some of you folks on this forum know all about these...

This seems like an awful good price...maybe too good...

But, I'm sure, someone can utilize this wee beastie!!!

 

[930dreamer]

I just called about the BP mill and his South Bend lathe ($300), they just loaded them for the new owner.

 

[oldldh]

Story of my life...

Too late---

Oh well, one can but try...

 

[MoparTruck85]

Sometimes I feel like ads like that are a sick joke to torture people like us. Everytime I get the same response..."Just now sold it"

 

[PugetDude]

Someone got a screaming deal on a Bridgeport Mill...

 

[zkling]

Eh, that is a tracing mill. IIRC call a true-trace. Not as versatile as the common universal mill.

 

[oldldh]

Well I'm glad it wasn't a "great" mill...

Not that that helps...much....

 

[ADSR]

Eh, that is a tracing mill. IIRC call a true-trace. Not as versatile as the common universal mill.

That's pretty cool! I've never seen one before.

Would have bought it for the 800 beans.

 

[zkling]

That's pretty cool! I've never seen one before.

Yea, they are not that great for general purpose milling IMHO. That smaller head looking thing on the right is a tracing head, which is then duplicated by the milling head on the left. Basically the milling version of a lathe duplicator. I've seen them setup with 3 milling heads. Downside is that they are kinda limited in heavy cuts IIRC. Still, for $800 if it isn't clapped out it would be nice, but I wouldn't go much over that.

I'm pretty sure they have hydraulic feed motors on them that make them a paint to convert to full manual. It's been a few years since I have fooled with them. A friends dad had one of those and a band file machine both converted to standard milling and bandsaw machine respectively. Personally I don't think the money he saved was worth it as they both had their quirks. But YMMV

 

[ihredo4]

I used one of those for a couple years at a friends shop. Short of the giant wall to the sides of the head it worked just like my J-HEAD and ROUND RAM does. I would have bought that in a heart beat.

 

[Exceller8]

The good deals are always gone before we can figure out if its a good deal or not.