A BIG "thank you"

[wierdscience]

Yep,that machine isn't nearly dirty enough!

[rockrat]

Nice iron. That looks like a Bridgeport power feed on the x, or am I mistaken?

You might want to take a photo of the floor now, because from here on out, I'm bettin' that there will be more chips on it than there has ever been.

Someone get that guy some steel to cut!
rock-

[Your Old Dog]

You ain't the young guy that was building them flamethrowers are you?

Nice looking machine you got there. By the time you're the age of some of the guys on this board you should have just about all the man toys avaiable! You got a good start!

[NiftyNev]

Nice mill.A bit worried about the pallet though.If the mill is slightly of centre then the weight will be on one side of the deck boards.If they start to bow more weight is transferred to the low side and eventually something has got to give and the machine may tip over.If transporting items such as this it's much better to use a pallet with two inboard bearers spaced as to still be able to use a pallet jack.It's also a 4 way pallet and some of the strength in the bearers are reduced with the cutouts.

Nev

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Now thats a picture of a happy man

best of luck.

[Michael Az]

Nice Bridgeport, looks like a good one. Many hours of fun there! Now the easy part is over and think about all the tooling you now need. Rotary table, indexing head, boring head, collet sets, well, I had better stop. Don't forget to buy a forklift for the next machines.
Congradulations!
Michael

[Milacron of PM]

Now all you have to do is figure out how to get it off the pallet

Looks like a nice late model one...mid 1990's at least...

[Morgan_RedHawk]

I have been a lurker for some time now, and I wanted to tell everyone here "thank you". I just brought home a Bridgeport mill today. Thanks to all of you here and your information and experience, I was able to choose the right machine for me, know how to inspect it, and how to move it myself without damaging the machine or gettin myself killed. There is no way that I could have done it without yall. I follow the advice here and moving it was a cake walk. So thank you to all of you for your great posts and advice. I am looking forward to learning more from yall.




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