Lathe, mills, drills, slotters, shapers and grinders (not angle grinders)

[Hilly]

It’s funny really as I’ve been looking at bed mills to. This is what I’m keen to get if I do but mainly because it’s looking quite likely I could be out of work before long so I fancy having a bash at going it alone.
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What will you make if you go alone ?

 

[Karliboy]

What will you make if you go alone ?

Predominantly I’m hoping to carry on doing basic injection moulds and press tooling along with anything else that crops up. I won’t do anything yet though until/when/if my place shuts down as I don’t have enough time for work then my own tool room and farming along with a very young family

 

[Karliboy]

Looks a very similiar machine, what’s that worth? Open to offers on the one I posted

List price quoted is 34k brand new with the hiedenhain control which is what I want as I can make them Sing all day long very easily. If I get anything I want it in and running fast. I takes to long to learn something new I feel in the terms of control systems so that’s why I’d stick with what I know

 

[Hilly]

Predominantly I’m hoping to carry on doing basic injection moulds and press tooling along with anything else that crops up. I won’t do anything yet though until/when/if my place shuts down as I don’t have enough time for work then my own tool room and farming along with a very young family

So you make metal moulds for injecting plastic into ??

 

[Karliboy]

So you make metal moulds for injecting plastic into ??

thats the one

 

[Karliboy]

Few examples

paint pot

Cutlery tray

2 impression handy basket

2 impression Dustbin flip lid

 

[Hilly]

Few examples

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Cutlery trayView attachment 963208
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Wow that’s really interesting thanks for posting the pics

 

[Karliboy]

Wow that’s really interesting thanks for posting the pics

No problem

 

[Hilly]

No problem

Do you do the plastic bit as well or just make the moulds ?

 

[Karliboy]

Yes, The boss has a small moulding shop next door where he does some.

 

[Karliboy]

So coming up to 12 months later I’ve just bought this today.

anyone else bought anything new/new to them.

 

[Karliboy]

To bring this back alive
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[Welderloon]

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[David Bliss]

Most of my tools have been sort of scrap but were ok after being rebuilt, any thing actually paid for were really bodged up by dealers and on any machine the heavier the better as can do small stuff on a large machine but can't do a large job on a small one. the little high speed is ok from a few thou up-to an 1/8, been left out as scrap at a machinery dealers gave £15 but with a bit of modifying and time is as good as new or better, the1962 Beaver mill came from Clays printing at Bungay, done little work but left outside, took five years to rebuild that, its ok but not as good as a Bridge-port, the little Corona pedestal drill and Wotan hand shaper were on a trailer ready to go for scrap, done a small repair so came for free apart from repairing them, the Herbert drill was at a machinery dealers at the time was asking silly money, ended up left out in a field and fell over, was told motor was burnt out, well it cost quite a bit as a multi speed motor and had to be rewired that cost £160 forty plus years ago but been used allot. All my machine tools cost little but tooling is where you need to spend money on.

 

[Bob c]

see this for some one

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[Hesstondriver]

Just picked this little one up

 

[Wood field]

see this for some one

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Brilliant lathes, punch well above their weight

 

[Hesstondriver]

https://www.ppauctions.com/eshots/20230126/index.html

 

[Bob c]

New to me

and new hand tool came with it

 

[Mur Huwcun]

New to me
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and new hand tool came with it
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We sent a load of morse tappered 3/4” -2” away to be done about two years ago, bill was a bit eye watering but they were useless before and now will drill in the radial arm without pilot holes! Can just touch them up by hand for a few years again hopefully bar the two that have chipped and the brand new 21mm that shattered