Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaudin98
Tom Senior M1 is a good small machine.
|
Wholeheartedly agree. Avoid most of the modern rubbish which is intended to look big but often can barely support itself, let alone do anything useful.
Buy a Senior M1, with both horizontal & vertical attachments and decent machine vice (Abwood, or similar). The only shortcoming will be that your z-axis (up & down) is via the knee, not a quill. They take MT tooling, so you can share some bits with the Myford. They are near indestructable, will machine things far larger than they were originally designed to do and swapping from 3-phase to single is a simple motor swap. They split easily (base, tray, column, knee, rear cover & motor), which makes taking them through the house possible if needed. The horizontal arbour support bar is invaluble for lifting the column back up once all the bits are in the correct room...
Look in the back of Model Engineer or Engineering In Miniature and you should find something fairly soon. Fairly that, try your local model engineering club. They are often asked to find homes for workshop equipment from deceased members etc.
Simon.