I saw an off name on EBAY being an INDEX milling machine, it looked to be about the same size as a Bport and looking Over the lathes.co.uk page i found out that index is still in operation as "Wells-Index" and the have parts for all their machines made after 1940
the machine seems to have som minor issues but at a 500 dollar pricetag and about 1500 once all the transportation is done i cant complain (It was a 480 mile drive for em earlier this week to pick it up)
Local Mills of that size cost easily over 4000 and the import machines are at least 2000 too for a Mill drill or an 8520 clone
I found out the mill is 50 years old and that they have parts (Although the index model 45 is NOT listed in lathes.co.uk it seems to eb the model before the Index 645) the downside was it had a 9 B&S taper on it but wen i emailed wells index they offer a service to recut it to R8 for $250 (I think thats a very reasonable price but some production machinists might be able to confirm)
BUT the important question now that i'm done rambling is that my googling of this group for a source of 1 to 1.5 HP single phase input VFD's has drawn a blank
it could just be bad googling on my part but does anyone have links to a VFD source (Ideally in canada)
thanks all