New to me drill and mill machine!

[skipnay]

Never had a milling machine and really didn't want to use my Jet drill press for making slot in aluminum or even steel. Don't know how well I did or didn't do. $900 and a 2 hour drive I didn't think I did to bad but you guys can decide that. Any tips or things I might need or need to know? Guy didn't use it for much other then doing a couple pieces for his model plane. It came with this stuff.

Grizzly G0781 Variable speed mill. Two speed head, 50-1,000 rpm and 100-2,000 rpm. 3/4 HP 110 Volt
magnetic scales (X, Y, Z axis, .001 increment).
R8 Collet with 1/8", 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 7/16", 1/2" & 3/4" collets.
2 Drill Chucks, 3-16MM drill chuck, 1-13MM drill chuck with keys.
Palmgren vise, 5C index head (5C Collet).
Indicator stand with 2 indicators (metric and American).
Includes carbide and HSS endmills (mostly carbide)
Criterion boring head.
Misc. tools, edge finder, V Block
Excellent condition, never wrecked. With the scales, this is a fairly accurate machine.

These chucks came with it. One is 3mm to 16mm and the other is 1mm to 13mm.

I got all of these collets and mill ends

I also got this from it. The guy is a machineist by trade and made this plate for this. He also gave me another one. That way I can use it for another vise or what not.

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[larry_g]

I looks like you got a great deal there.
The first thing to do is get your cutters isolated from each other. The carbide is brittle and banging together will chip them. First project, drill a bunch of holes in a block of wood or plastic to hold them upright.

Enjoy the process of the learning curve your starting.

lg
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[NUTTSGT]

Every time I see you guys buying stuff like this, it makes me start looking through CL and other sites to price it.

 

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Im going to say you ****. Yes, you ****.

 

[ADSR]

You did good, friend!

 

[larry_g]

Your photo bucket is now giving a grey box.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[gte718p]

Im going to say you ****. Yes, you ****.

I can't see the pictures, so I have no idea how much tooling came with it, but I don't think deserves suckage. The 781 commands $800 new. Scales a couple of hundred, collets $20. All the little pieces can add up quickly, but used don't hold their value well.

Certainly a decent deal, but not spectacular. Good little machine. I'm sure the OP will have fun with it.

 

[James-W]

I can't see the pictures, so I have no idea how much tooling came with it, but I don't think deserves suckage. The 781 commands $800 new. Scales a couple of hundred, collets $20. All the little pieces can add up quickly, but used don't hold their value well.

Certainly a decent deal, but not spectacular. Good little machine. I'm sure the OP will have fun with it.

For some reason I can't see the pictures either.

I would agree with your assessment, I think he got a decent deal, but I wouldn't call it a super good one.

 

[skipnay]

I fixed the images guys. Pay photobucket $399 or try something else for a lot less money. Which is fine for me. Not paying them $399 a year for ****.

 

[EOC_Jason]

Was this the one from the other thread where you were trying to decide?

I think you got a good deal, I would have tried to beat him down on price, but that's just how I roll... lol. Even at $900 all the included tooling makes it a decent savings for something that looks lightly used. Tooling and accessory equipment can easily exceed the cost several times over of a machine.

As someone else said, you need to do something with those endmills so you don't end up chipping the tips. Carbide is extremely hard, but brittle. Either get some little pouches, boxes, whatever, so they are lined up parallel and can't slide around. When they get dull save them in a container, depending on what's local and their rates sometimes you can get them re-ground at a decent price.

You might also want to keep an eye out for a compound angle vise and / or sine plate, and a rotary table would also give you more abilities.

Time to get a MSC catalog, or also look up and see what tooling companies are located in your area.

 

[skipnay]

Was this the one from the other thread where you were trying to decide?
YES He wanted $1000 but wouldn't take less then $900. He said he would wait to sell so I took the $900 and ran with it.
I think you got a good deal, I would have tried to beat him down on price, but that's just how I roll... lol. Even at $900 all the included tooling makes it a decent savings for something that looks lightly used. Tooling and accessory equipment can easily exceed the cost several times over of a machine.

As someone else said, you need to do something with those endmills so you don't end up chipping the tips. Carbide is extremely hard, but brittle. Either get some little pouches, boxes, whatever, so they are lined up parallel and can't slide around. When they get dull save them in a container, depending on what's local and their rates sometimes you can get them re-ground at a decent price.

You might also want to keep an eye out for a compound angle vise and / or sine plate, and a rotary table would also give you more abilities.

Time to get a MSC catalog, or also look up and see what tooling companies are located in your area.

Thank you for the advice. I bought a bunch of 3/8 thick and 1/2 thick aluminum at the salvage yard last year. I guess it's time for me to start making holes in a couple pieces of that to keep the endmills from touching each other.