Cleaning up an old milling machine

[ml_woy]

(09-18-2012, 08:19 AM)stevec Wrote: ML, What make is that mill?

The mill was made by Balding Engineering in England somewhere in the 60-70's. It is their "PAL" model which was the little brother to the VBRP model and was designed as an instructional or light duty machine. Spech. sheet said it came with a 1hp or 2hp motor but actually this one has a 1/2 hp motor. Table is 10" x 44" and it has an R8 spindle. Balding Engineering sold a lot of their big mills in the US in the 60's although I have only seen one here in Sacramento Ca, that was a couple of weeks ago at a used equipment dealer, but this is the first PAL I have seen. Machine came from a guy who had bought it to notch tubing for sprint car chassis from a speed shop who had it setting around about ten years ago. Since then it has just been setting for about five years. He sold it to me for what he paid for it ten years ago $1,200. I thought it was a good deal. Finding parts, if needed, will almost be impossible, that is the downside.