Made this T-slot table today

Wow, you must have a pretty big mill in the shop, eh?

This is how the table top was when I took it off...

icc

Oh, I thought your guy milled the T-slots. I should have known better.

That came off the rotary table sitting on his mill table. The Table electric drive is 40HP DC for direction control. :-)

Martin

Yeah, it would have to be pretty hefty. For a moment, I thought that Ig had decided to keep one of those monsters he sells for scrap.

I would not want them for one of the reasons no one else wants them, mainly old age and difficulty of repair. The other reason, poor performance, is not something that concerns me. I will stick with my CNC Bridgeport milling machine that I converted to Linux.

Scrapping stuff and parting out is fun.

OK, how much, do you think, I should ask for it?

It weighs 1,400 lbs.

Good. Those of us who find our work to be fun are among the luckier ones.

I'll pass. I don't even think in terms of 1,400 lb. tables.

Yes, it would be so sad to spend the majority of my awake hours, doing something that I do not love. And it is great that I get paid for it.

I usually ask $1 per lb on bigger stuff like that.

For small stuff I ask $1.20 per lb.

I will add a new 6" bullet vise to this table and will sell it as NEW table with NEW vise.

Thanks... If you use it for welding, you would need to blow out the welding crud from T-slots, but it is great for clamping and laying stuff out.

By the way, the table top pictured here:

came from this machine:

Aha. That's a Micromatic horizontal line-honing machine for crankshaft bores. I don't know if that model is still made, but I'll bet it is. Bates bought out the Textron Micromatic line around ten years ago.

My own opinion regarding this machine is that finding a buyer for it as a whole, will be exceedingly difficult. They could not sell it on ebay (361005815063).

It is, however, full of cool and valuable parts and weighs about

It's going to be a very small market. That model is pretty big -- not automotive, but probably truck- and off-road diesels. Those guys don't buy much used equipment. My guess is that it would be confined to engine rebuilders who work on the big ones.

Yow. I don't like to even *think* about moving things that heavy. My house probably doesn't weigh that much.

I agree on "all of the above" of what you said.

It came from Caterpillar.

For big guys like this, spending $500,000 on a new machine is better than spending $5,000 on a used machine, they do not even think about it.

The biggest machine I lifted recently was a 34,000 lbs Bullard VTL (lightened up some down to this weight). I also scrapped a machine 2 years ago that weighed 100,000 lbs, but I did so by parts, I only had a 15,000 forklift at the time.

You've come a long way, Ig. d8-)

Indeed, Ig has become a job creator on a multitude of levels. IMHO we need more small business, they contribute more to local ecconomies than mulit-nationals and thier not to big to fail.

Best Regards Tom.