purchase a Bridgeport CNC

Hi Keith, Ready to take on a gutted CNC Bridgeport? I hope that means your Mori Seki SL1 lathe is making chips! Cool! Good Luck, Bart

Suggest resist the urge...

Bart, my Mori Seki is going great but I am still getting the tooling centered and G50'd etc. I have a son who is turning 16 and I have proposed that we do a retrofit on a BP and then try to resell it to make him some money for the new car he wants to buy. He will learn quite a bit in the process. We plan to use the same components that I used on the BP in my shop. Great father-son quality time...

Thanks, Keith

========= Its wonderful to see that the machining/fabrication skills are being passed to the next generation. However I am sure the other attitudes and work ethic he will learn will be of even more value. This is the type of life instruction that the schools cannot give no matter how much money they spend.

Unka George (George McDuffee)

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Letter, 15 Nov. 1913.

Hey Keith, Good to hear that your first CNC is going great.

As for rebulding a BP, have a look at the Southwestern Industries website, they have a complete package for retrofitting a BP or BP style knee mill, in two or three axis. The ProtoTrak control is very, very easy to use and program.

samurai.

I gotta agree. In my neck of the woods, a good manual Bridgeport has a better resale value than a CNC Bridgeport.

How about this 1992 3x Bridgeport CNC, now on ebay... Probably a little better than your typical cnc knee mill.

"Steven Haerr - CNCTrader Corp" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

$3,500.00

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I'm thinking more like $8-10k. (but I might be biased...)

Steve.

"Steven Haerr - CNCTrader Corp" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

You're probably right. I don't have a clue what old VMC's are worth. It looks to be in nice shape but still...

Just curious. Which control did you use on yours?

Will

Maybe Andy will see this thread and chime in. You remember Andy.

"John R. Carroll" wrote in news:qMlfg.43474$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com:

LOL.

It's already up to three grand with six days to go. So looks like I'm too low.

It's all Clinton's fault LOL .

Spindle driver or was it amp costs like 6 k or so Ive heard.

Prime candidates for retro, IMO...sell off the electronics and then retro the base machine perhaps.