Looking At A Bigger Mill

[f350ca]

(05-01-2015, 05:59 PM)EdK Wrote: I live out in a small town where those types of resources are not available at the drop of a hat so I need plan ahead. The person from Eisen told be I'd need a forklift to unload it from the flat-bed truck it gets delivered on. I'm surprised they would send a full sized mill from California to Minnesota on a flat-bed  truck.  

Ed

No way to tie it down in a van body ED. Summit refused to ship my lathe in a van for that reason, had to be trapped and chained down on a flat bed.

[Highpower]

Yep. ALWAYS secure your load.

[EdK]

Anybody know anything about Sharp LMV mills?

http://www.machinesused.com/machine_deta...m?ID=13985

Ed

[TomG]

I've heard of them but have no experience with them. Looks like they are still in business.

Sharp Industries

Tom

[EdK]

I got a quote from them. Not a bad price at $3950 if the mill is in good shape. They currently sell for about $8000 new.

Ed


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[Mayhem]

How far is it from you Ed? It is certainly worth a look at I think.

[TomG]

Those pics are of a low mileage machine by the looks of the scraping on the ways.

Tom

[EdK]

(05-06-2015, 10:24 AM)Mayhem Wrote: How far is it from you Ed?  It is certainly worth a look at I think.

It's about 40 miles or so.

Ed

[EdK]

(05-06-2015, 11:05 AM)TomG Wrote: Those pics are of a low mileage machine by the looks of the scraping on the ways.

Tom

That's kind of what I thought. The knee ways are supposed to be scraped like that also but the video shows them as being smooth so that concerns me a little. It might still be worth looking at though.

Ed

[PixMan]

Videos can't always show details like the photos do, it should be fine. I think that's a very nice machine for the money and would jump on it!