Next on the list of useful machine in my workshop has to be my Bridgeport milling machine. It's a 1969 belt change that I found in an injection moulding shop where I was buying some bits. It was literally buried under a heap of plastic offcuts and beads. It had ceased to be used when various bits stopped working, and had been abandoned lonely and unloved in a corner :(
Folding money changed hands and it followed me home precariously balanced on a single axle trailer on the back of my Volvo 240 estate - a nerve wracking journey if ever there was one!
Total strip down, all ways reground professionally, new leadscrews and nuts, many new bits in the head and the addition of a shaper head make it a very versatile machine.
Folding money changed hands and it followed me home precariously balanced on a single axle trailer on the back of my Volvo 240 estate - a nerve wracking journey if ever there was one!
Total strip down, all ways reground professionally, new leadscrews and nuts, many new bits in the head and the addition of a shaper head make it a very versatile machine.
Andrew Mawson, proud to be a member of MetalworkingFun Forum since Oct 2013.