Look What I Dragged Home!

[rbattelle]

MD500E - wow, that is awesome! A Bridgeport is the other major machine tool I want to acquire some day.

Actually, I always thought I'd get a mill first, since it seems like most of what I need to make is square parts.

That looks like a step pulley model, which is the kind I want (rather than variable speed). Are you running yours on a phase converter, or do you have 3-phase in the garage?

Ryan

 

[MD500E]

I have it hooked up to a rotary converter. I am very lucky to have a friend who has been a machinist for over 30 years helping me out. With out his help I would be lost. Now he is trying to talk me into a Kerry engine lathe at an upcoming auction. He is excited about it because it is geared for both standard and metric tapping. Only problem is my wife is going to kill me if anything else shows up in the garage. :-laf

 

[HOBrian]

Ryan, How big is your garage??? Did this one come that clean, or was it like the band saw and you cleaned it up? Looks really good! You should start making solid steel baseball bats!!!:-laf

 

[rbattelle]

Ryan, How big is your garage??? Did this one come that clean, or was it like the band saw and you cleaned it up?

My garage is a 2-car. Obviously, only 1 car parks in it (my wife). If it weren't for the sake of "marital bliss" I'd have long ago consumed her half of the garage. As it is, her car just barely fits in there. This lathe consumes the last tiny bit of space I had. A vertical mill will have to wait until I move to a more appropriate property.



The picture as you see it is as I dragged it home. It looks cleaner in the photo than in real life. I'm in the process of doing a refurbishing on it. Lots of oil/dirt/swarf to be removed.



Not a complete restoration like my band saw, but more of just a "freshening".



Ryan