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    nice nice i need some skinney parrelles i have 10mm up the sizes i made them and could be fked doing it again, and have needed skinney ones alot.

    go grays online i got a genuine bridgeport mill for 200 bucks just fixed up some wiring and wala. we have some pretty shitty mills at work they dont have much torque but they are ok they are maximart.
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    sam im in adelaide

    check out this for some crazy machining fun



    i havent used a mill for about 2 years as my current job dosent have one. man i dident realize how much i would miss it. I want to do the courses to make sure i dont forget the little i already know
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    well there goes atleast an hour! some really informative pics in that forum, I will need to dedicate more time to it so thanks for the link

    It's easy to pick up how to use a mill again once you have been reminded what all the levers and dials do.
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    Ironically while ive done stacks of work on lathes, i have never touched a mill in my life.

    Nor do i own a lathe anymore. We had one out on the farm my parents had, but it was a 2.5ton unit, with a 550mm (12in) swing over base :o Couldnt really take it with us.

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    wow you wouldn't mail that one with you
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    Nah, not even really transportable.
    The shed that it was in had the 17hp motor in the roof cavity, with a sodding big leather belt to drive it.
    Had about 20thou play in the slides too

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    far out, remember no dirty imperial talk here
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    Bah, all the lathes i get to use these days are Impies.

    Thinking about buying my own one though, considering getting a little mini lathe, and then still using larger ones as need be.

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    i hate at work when the old guys talk metric then go oh take 50 thou of this,
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    anyone ever tried a Chinese lathe? I wonder if they are bad as their mills. Hey Chris why don't you buy a second hand Hercus like me:





    super easy to bolt a single phase motor on like what I did, usually very affordable and almost all the spares can be bought new, even for this old girl (1952!). The head stock inside diameter is a bit limiting though and so is the speed range but I may have a fix for that.
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