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The Toolman · Member

If you fellas are gonna spend all that $ on them little bitty lathes an mills, you should move up a notch an buy these 2 machines. I've been to grizzly, they are just a few miles from me. These are a coupla fine looking machines I tell ya. I'm a retired small machine shop owner an these are well built an would be perfect for a home shop. The little lathe here has a 1" spinle bore an should work for most all air gun bbls.

http://www.grizzly.com/products/10-x-22-Bench-Top-Metal-Lathe/G0602

This little mill comes with a stand an is a little jewel IMO for the price. Its not a little bitty thing like the harbor freight ones are.......

http://www.grizzly.com/products/Drill-Mill-with-Stand/G0704

I have nothing to do with grizzly, I just happened to have owned several of their bigger machines an never had any troubles out of'em that wasn't my own fault....

Ronnie-The Toolman Smile

JustMatt · Member

I would love those... Too bad switching gears from working to schooling and buying a house leaves no spare money. At the job I just had to leave, the inventory area that I was supposed to be partially managing was a cubicle divider away from the machine shop. They had three big milling machines (two Bridgeports and a Legune I think), two lathes and a CNC machine. They varied in age from 15 to 30 years old but were still pretty nice. I wanted to learn how to use them all but my job kept me very busy in other aspects of production and never had time to. As someone who ran a machine shop, do you have any suggestions as to where somebody interested in learning could start? I would want to read as much as I could before being in the position to break an expensive piece of equipment. Engineering is great and all but I want to know more about how the stuff I design is actually fabricated.

The Toolman · Member

Other than getting somebody to let you help on a lathe an mill, the next best is this book. It has everything and I do mean everything in it a machinist would ever want to know. I have one an used it up until the day I sold out. But I still have the book.....

This is the machinists Bible, believe me. Feeds, speeds, threads, you name it an it is in here somewhere. Best $ you will ever spend if you are going to do machining. I don't care how long you have been doing it or how machine smart you are, eveybody needs this book at some time or other.

You MIGHT be able to find this at your library also....not sure, but ask anyway, they might be able to get it for ya

http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAKA=319-9814&PMPXNO=20205473&PARTPG=INLMK3

rsterne · Moderator

Got one, 30 years old but never out of date.... Mr. Green

Bob

yourdaddyjoe · Supporting Member

The G0602 is all ready on the hit list... Hoping before the year is out...

A bigger mill sometime next year...

kanyon · Silver Status Member

those things are only toys...
Joe for what you do with a lathe.
yer need to look at the AL320G..
good wee unit...they are a 1metre bed lathe but
have been shortened to 600 centres/ 38mm bore/
powered on X & Y...very solidly built...
They are prob the smallest REAL lathe I have seen
in the cheaper range...
really its hard to look past one for the prise...

yourdaddyjoe · Supporting Member

Budget will only allow around a grand... and the Grizzly unit meets all the specs I need right now...

The Toolman · Member

Kanyon,

I know the bigger machines are the cats meow, but it looks like most of the fellas here are short on space an funds. Thats why I showed them what is a big step above those little $400 or so lathes an small mills but yet still affordable for almost all of'em here.

Believe it or not, I started my (then) little biz with a small mill/drill, a 9 x 20 jet lathe, 20 qt burr-king tumbler and a 1 hp long shaft bufffer.

yourdaddyjoe · Supporting Member

I have not used any credit cards or took out loans for my tools... If I can't pay cash... I don't want it...

I'll keep doing this as long as it is self supporting.... the day I have to use a credit card to keep it afloat... I'll go get a regular job and close up shop... It's come close several times...