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It was two purchases I made, all totaled I think around $750. The gun and nozzle conversion setup with two standard conversion nozzles was around $550 plus.
Because I took advantage of a deal I couldn’t pass up. I don’t eat them up but do consume them over time.
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if you do end up scrapping it, save the screws and the overarm and the table at the very least, probably the step pulley off the spindle too in case someone's got one without the mating pulley, they could use yours
I might have the brass cover plate like that on a die stock around here, can take measurements on it if you're interested
Thank goodness I had talked a friend into coming to help.
And had to google it, but apparently it's been owned by the same family since 1902.
Always like seeing places like that still in business. 
I drive by the Reed building every so often, it's covered in vines.
I wonder how many will get this
boy, they have really let that place go
I’ll use it no worries there, if you had it, you just break it trying to figure out how it works.to bad it will never get used
The listing said they were for zero turns but then there were some conflicting sizes listed and I recognized from that pics that the tread pattern on most of them were the UTV ones. Ended up only being 1 Pair of zero turn ones and the rest were UTV. They were also listed as new, but most were lightly used, some were a little more worn. And then they said there were 22 but when I went to pick them up the guy said "there are a few more than I thought if you want them". Either way, I wanted a couple sets for projects and the rest will get flipped to hopefully break even. to bad it will never get used
Having the means to haul things, store things, and move things is apt to get you in trouble... 😉
Only think I don't love is that it's a rigid ram so you don't get the range of motion that a dovetail ran machine has, but I'm not sure I've ever actually had to move the ram on my old one.
Did you ever come across a job that you needed a larger mill table than your old mill had but this new one could’ve done?Got the mill unloaded. This thing is BEAST. My old mill is a Lagun FT-2 with a 9x48" table. This thing has an 11x60" table with power feeds on all 3 axis.
Crazy that I got this thing for $950 while a Bridgeport round ram J-head went for $775.
New one:
Old one:
And to be fair, I paid about $800 for this one at a different auction.
I’ve ran across a few things in my life that required tilting the drill press table but not enough that made me pull the trigger on this drill press. I’m actually looking for one for some good parts I can use on one of the two small drill presses I already have. It has a chunk out of the motor pulley top and I think the housing has a crack in it, but that’s hard to make out if it’s a crack or casting line.It's been so long since I've used my big drill press that I kind of forgot you can also just tilt the table on it. Still doesn't solve the headroom problem, but probably easier than a vise or jig.
might be able to mix and match the parts, get all the good shit on one and sell the other one
Yeah, my table tilts, but it's a pain to set a precise angle and get everything aligned just right with the hole you want and then you're also dealing with things sliding off the table.
No, but I could see needing it at some point in the future. I could see the need to clamp something to the front face of the table and let it hang down to the floor being useful.
Only way to do that would be to swap the entire head from the column up. I'd have to take some measurements to see if they're even the same dimensions. And then really I'd want to swap the heads back between the two since the old mill is R8 and and the new is 40 taper. I also think the old is 3hp and new is 4.
oh old is prolly a series 1 clone and the new is a series 2
only a few nuts really not at all bad, sorta like the guys that make a big deal outta tilting the head when that's like the biggest reason to own a BP rather than a much more rigid fixed verticalI'm sure it could be done, but it'd be a hell of a lot of work....basically tearing appart both heads and upper casting from both mills and putting them back together.
