TOOLS AND THE SHOP > MACHINE SHOP

You think your mill is big?

(1/2) > >>

jabberwoki:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevCJ_PvmCg

goodfellow:
I'm a fan of that channel. A one man operation and he nails it with his attitude and expertise. That young man will go far --

Lookin4_67GalaxieConv:
Is that Greyson's?   :))

Uncle Buck:
Probably a great machine, but that old girl appears to has seen a lot of use in a production shop for some years and likely seen thousands of parts cross that table. The machine also looks to me like it spent  quite some time decommissioned and in storage.  That said, such a machine is probably still capable of doing alot of good work with a high degree of accuracy and holding tight tolerances.
It was likely taken out of service in a high volume shop and replaced with a new machine that could produce more parts faster. Or, perhaps while the machine still did accurate work it was requiring more frequent down time for maintenance and repairs which became unacceptable in a high volume production shop. Not to mention that the machine had likely been in service long enough that it had paid for itself on the books and depreciated enough to justify its retirement and replacement.

In a less high volume shop I bet that guy will get a lot of use from it and make great use of it.

Rural53:
As soon as I saw the thread title I suspected it would be Curtis and co. I suspect we will soon be seeing them cutting a hole in the floor and pouring a new foundation for that machine.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page