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  1. #21
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by TPR View Post
    if you buy one id love to come see it, been looking at them for a minute now. just not sure about it.

    Carlos
    Trenton, SC
    I'm in Atlanta and have one. You are welcome to come see it

  2. #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannirr View Post
    I'm in Atlanta and have one. You are welcome to come see it
    That's awesome man! I'll pm you for info

  3. #23
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Looks like I'm going to pull the trigger and order the Slant Pro tomorrow! Should arrive the week after Thanksgiving. Man... I've got some serious re-arranging to do to pull this off.
    The Body Armor Dude - Andrew

  4. #24
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by smokediver576 View Post
    Looks like I'm going to pull the trigger and order the Slant Pro tomorrow! Should arrive the week after Thanksgiving. Man... I've got some serious re-arranging to do to pull this off.
    Congratulations
    Jim Dawson
    Sandy, Oregon, USA

  5. #25
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Looks like I'm part of the Slant Pro owners club!!! Just hit the order button! Now I have that funny feeling of needing to puke mixed with a 5 year old waiting for Christmas morning....
    The Body Armor Dude - Andrew

  6. #26
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Taking on debt or losing that much capital to investment is never too much fun. It's called growing pains.
    Congratulations. While it is not top of the line nor even middle of the road, it is a good capable and versatile machine.
    How will you outfit it?
    Lee

  7. #27
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by LeeWay View Post
    Taking on debt or losing that much capital to investment is never too much fun. It's called growing pains.
    Congratulations. While it is not top of the line nor even middle of the road, it is a good capable and versatile machine.
    How will you outfit it?
    The good thing for me is that it's not going to be a debt item. I sold a couple of other pieces of equipment that I was not using and am rolling that money into the lathe.

    Right now I'm ordering it pretty much plain Jane with Tool post, collet closer and gang tooling. Figure if the work keeps increasing I'll add the ATC next year and possibly the enclosure. The good news is that I've got plenty of work to feed it and it will allow me to run both the mill and the lathe at the same time. Right now I'm running the Rapid Turn which means I have to stop milling. Several parts I run are mill first op then turned on rapid turn. Now I can just keep cranking away on the mill and load/run the second op on the lathe.
    The Body Armor Dude - Andrew

  8. #28
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    The enclosure is well worth the money!

  9. #29
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by smokediver576 View Post
    Looks like I'm part of the Slant Pro owners club!!! Just hit the order button! Now I have that funny feeling of needing to puke mixed with a 5 year old waiting for Christmas morning....
    Nice, sounds about right, the shock of a large purchase wears off and you get busy making a spot for the tool, along with room on work benches to un-box and assemble the purchase. I have been on the upgrade cycle for a year now, recently with a new efficient 155 max psi air compressor with a 120 psi low cycle so I can adjust my pdb to the high end psi cycle and not the low cycle of 100- psi of my current 20 year old compressor. Also upgrading cad $oftware and so far this looks like a major step UP in my game. Apparently I have been using this same tool far to long and working in the dark ages so to speak. I'm in shock at what I can design now and how long it takes to design it.

  10. #30
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    My new Slant Pro is on the truck and will be delivered today!!!!! :banana::banana::banana:
    The Body Armor Dude - Andrew

  11. #31
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by smokediver576 View Post
    My new Slant Pro is on the truck and will be delivered today!!!!!
    How did it go? Good planning, what with a 4-day weekend coming up.

  12. #32
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    There might be one in the DFW area. Info to follow soon.

  13. #33
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    I received mine a couple of weeks ago, I don't have a lot of spare time at the moment, yesterday I indicated the turret and took a test facing cut, it is spot on without any shims! I was quite happy with that
    after reading the instructions relating to using the shims. The instructions about using the supplied tool and running the lathe in reverse are not really very easy to follow, when i put the tool into the turret it was that far above centre
    that there was no hope of cutting anything? So I just used the turning and facing tool that I bought and ran the spindle forward.Enclosure today!
    Will

  14. #34
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by mountaindew View Post
    I was thinking about that machine. I live couple hours away and it looked clean, setup right and well taken care of.
    Off topic, but you and I must be closer than I thought. I saw that same machine and was trying to figure out a way to buy it since it was just 20 minutes up the road from me :-)

    Obviously I didn't have the cash on hand either.

  15. #35
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    Re: WTB - SlantPro - Southeast

    Quote Originally Posted by C*H*U*D View Post
    Off topic, but you and I must be closer than I thought. I saw that same machine and was trying to figure out a way to buy it since it was just 20 minutes up the road from me :-)

    Obviously I didn't have the cash on hand either.
    I noticed it was updated on craigslist just a few days ago again, maybe its still for sale. Having just updated to new cad software and few other things my tool budget is blown for a while. On the other hand I enjoy my mill so much more having modern cad software linked into my cam software. The cost and I mostly didn't want to dedicate the time to learn new cad software and cam software at same time, but now that I changed I wish I had not waited this long. Makes drawing a part model or a huge assembly pretty fast and not near the amount of time I was putting in before. That frees up time for cam and shop time. Just need to be careful now its super easy to draw 3d models that more less cant be made very easy if at all.

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