Bridgeport BOSS-3

45 discussions on PolyTech Forum about the Bridgeport BOSS-3: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.

What owners report

Lathe update/questions

Hello all,It appears that my news server and reader were not happy with each other. Unless I miss my guess, Earthlink's server screwed up, and Thunderbird failed to gracefully recover. No doubt Google will help fill the gap.The machine...

Vertical Mill - $300 Craigslist

If you look carefully at the one photo, I think the badge on themachine head says Index. It's in Reading, PA. They're selling it atabout the scrap price.

CNC Bridgeport with Heidenhein control

Someone is offering me a Bridgeport Series II Interact CNC mill. Hesays that it worked but the Heidenhein controller is no longeroperational. Whether this is true or not, as always is questionable. The price is $500. My question is, can...

I can now run EMC2 and it kind of "works"

wiring garage with Ethernet last night I moved on a bit. Workeduntil 2am. I have configured my mill PC to run EMC2 with "ppmc" configuration. I tried to do a good job, so that all configs are in my CVS sourcetree, there are shell aliases...

CNC Bridgeport with Heidenhein control

Someone is offering me a Bridgeport Series II Interact CNC mill. Hesays that it worked but the Heidenhein controller is no longeroperational. Whether this is true or not, as always is questionable. The price is $500. My question is, can...

Your worst project?

What was the most ill-conceived, unsuccessful, and worthless/expensiveDIY style project that you undertook (I would say without counting anyinjuries as they could outweigh everything else)?My biggest one is a shed that I built. Not counting...

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