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I recant what I said.
The 2 parties have settled.
Please close and delete this thread.

OMG, we have moonbats on this site now.What next, become the majority in the OC and San Diego counties.
How come the Gore-bal warming koolaide drinkers never talk about the Maunder Minimum or the...

Good choices, except hitachi have been gone for years. In fact, I beleive Mori took over ops and where building them as Mori HiTech.
I sold Hitachi after the big GE RiverWorks layoff in the late...

Try Machining Time Savers in Anaheim, CA

Oh ya, bet on it. I'm goin to the labor board 1st. But, try getting blood out of a rock!!
It gets worse, when he lost the lathe line he kicked and screamed and demanded 90 protection or he'd sue....

Lots of good points here. No ego's either. The "businessman" makes good points. . I love what Gene has done and if you haven't gotten a factory tour, do whatever you can to get out here to see it....

If you are a builder do not consider them for distributorship. They rep'd a premier CNC lathe mfr which gave them the privilege to sell parts,which btw is easy money and what keeps many of the HFO's...

Sorry to hear thios. You would not have been happy with that machine and you were getting zero support.
Best of luck.

WJ machines can cut fiber type composites or glass.. The problem you have is delamination. You need to sandwich the material and have a starter hole in it. I sell Omax and we recently did a...

Thank God they put a bullet in that shows head.All the major distributors pulled out and the corresponding builders. It stopped being a good show in the late 90's and was nothing more than HaasTEC...

This is gonna take a while, lol. Started running machines in 1979. Last machinist job was 1988-GE River Works Lynn, Mass. Been selling cnc since then(good job IUE201). I have worked directly for the...

chit, had no idea pot made me paranoid for a reason, hahahahahahaha.
This thread ROOLS.

CLASSIC example of someone that did their homework. Imagine had you done that to a beefy Tree knee mil??? Made up der in yer neck uf da woods, lol. Good on ya my man.

OMFG, this is the best thread I have ever read on any forum anywhere. I've been a member of Sat hacking forums, sports forums, whatever and this thread rules.
In part, because so much of it is true....

Tough to tell. Pro's: you can use all the mounting brackets et al. No need to re-create the wheel.
Cons:since it was a cnc retrofit from the factory and a short travel rigid ram series 2, it's...

Awesome. congrats to you. You did what it takes. Help the guy out if you can. The community is better for it.

One last thing tech. Bottom line is, how much is your time worth?? Are you up for the task and willing to rub the elbow grease?

Whether you build it or buy it, you get out what you put in.
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Again, tram the head, sweep the table in. Is it tight?? Good thing about Bridgeports is, the castings get better as they age. Ballscrews are a must and if you go CNC, 1 shot lube is not gonna cut it....

All of us old guys/vets should be promoting the NTMA Training Centers.
High schools should be promoting machine shop for at risk youth.
A lot of these "at risk" kids have no self esteem. The one...

There are many retro-fit kits out there for a std Series 1 or copy.If you stick with the reputable ones: Fagor, Anilam, Accu-Rite, even Proto-Trak, you are looking at $13g for 2 axis plus labor....

Dan's Machine Tool Repair in La Mirada CA

I was at a shop today where the customer bought ME lunch!! That's right, the salesman didn't by the customer lunch,lol. We chatted for hour and a 1/22 and he said "I only buy machines from people I...

And Chucky Baby, don't look now, but many mid to high end cnc's have the ability to make parts from only a NURBS surface, no post processing involved. Yhats right, simple input the NURBS directly...

Hey Chuck, I'm taking bets he prolly works in a union shop and hates his phuqqing boss?

Jeez, didn't think your panties where all wound up either.
In the mid 80's, I was making 20-30/hour as a manual machinist, thats right, not CNC.
I just left a shop 2 hours ago in Torrance,...

Au contrair. Draps, as we call them, came out of necessity in the high volume production end of machining. You see, when you are making millions of parts, the tool change time of just 1 tool...

Another thing is perception of our trade. We used to be thought of as grunts that came home dirty and oily in the same vein as Vinny the auto mechanic. So, as society got fatter and lazier, they...

"numerical tool and process control programmers" is what a CNC programmer is. In it's strictest definition it is a person that manually inputs the g-code programming for part processing directly at...

Turret mills are what Bridgeports are. The head can be swung to the left or right for whatever reason. Think of the gun turret on top of a tank.
Mini mills are those lil benchtop toys like you have...

Thanx HFD and Donkey.
31 years in this industry and I learn something knew damn near every day.