Couple junk yard parts and some lathe work trailer hubs might not be needed and various type/sizes could be made.
I for one know I have the parts out in the yard to build 50 gennies if I started scrapping out cars and vans. Actaully these are too good to scrap, but I can get scrap ones dirt cheap, so can most people if they look. So what about those nice axles under the rear of a mini van? Parts for 2 mills right there? $70 for 2 trailer hubs? Alot of machine work perhaps to make 16" rotors to fit those 5 bolt hubs or spindles.. nothing to lose
Spelin and tpying are my strong points, not electronics.
Speaking of shop tools, what is the review on the Harbor Freight Mill/Lathe Combo? How has it been performing? Do you like it, and would you recommend it?
P.S. Check your email.---------Dean-----------[ Parent ]
First I did not buy the one from HF, it was out of stock at the time I wanted it. I did alot of talking to the person when I called to order it and got tech person or such. Seems it did not come with a vice, was metric table, they did not even sell a vice for it, etc... What info I got was not that good.
I bought mine then from Grizzly. I do like it very well, though it's the only one I ever had so I have nothing to compare it too. The one I got came with vice, follower rest, steady rest, vice, etc... a few things I think that are well worth some money to have. I think those items were not included at HF for theirs, not certain.
The grizzly model did cost me about $200 more I think, I drove up to springfield to pick mine up. They made changes to the model since the catalog was printed or website updated, changes are for the better. I saw the older model in the showroom I geuss. It only had like a 6' or so cross travel, kinda dumb for a 16" lathe, mine has the full cross travel. Very important as that's where you run your cutter bit in and out, center to outer radious. Not to easy to face turn a 16" disk if you only have 6" travel or less. Also makes a big diffence in how far you can mill an item. I like mine alot, and would probably buy another I think if I were to do it again.
Oops, got to run pick kid up from game. I was going to look up the model number I bought, but no time now. It was about $1,400 I think, so if your looking at grizzly.com they have several sizes as combo units and the one closest to that price is probably the one I have, 16" swing for lathe and 36" bed length.. nothing to lose
Spelin and tpying are my strong points, not electronics.[ Parent ]
http://www.grizzly.com/products/item.aspx?itemnumber=G9729
I made a couple errors in the above post about mine I see. 16 1/2" swing Distance between centers: 31" (I was thinking 36" )
Cross slide travel: 3-3/4" (ok that was the one I said was dumb. How could you face a 16" disk with only 3-3/4 cross slide. the one in the showroom only had the 3 3/4", the screw rod was only threaded that far, I was going to make a new one for mine, but mine has full travel as it should, not sure actual cross slide travel but around 8" or more at least I would geuss, as it should be for face turning a 16" disk. )
Currant price $1,450 plus shipping and taxes.. nothing to lose
