Definitely, Even a Harbor Frieght model off the Book of Face market place. As long as its not all bent and twisted there pretty good to go. You'll definitely use it for sure. Also a cheap set of cutting tourchs and tanks. Between heat and a press, there isn't much you won't be able to losses up.

Yeah, I still need some type of hydraulic press, an air compressor and something to sand blast parts. Then I should have what I need.

Its often been said, That a man with a shop full of tools and a generous heart should never need to buy a cold beer ever again. And I can testify that this is very true. Between the Stick,Mig, and now Tig welders. And the lathe and Mill I added this summer. The friends and family have been stopping over a little more often. I told them all that the hourly rate is 6 packs of Coors light. And to pre pay is highly encouraged, Especially in the hot summer months. LoL. There's not much we haven't been able to fix or repair so fare.

After research, it is a clone of a grizzly G0705. I have been looking for a mill and lathe since August. Have been outbid on several. It took me a while to finally get them.

I use hibid.com most of the time.

I wish y'all were closer... we're cleaning up a property and there are like 20 lathes here...of course the property owner thinks every bit of his trash is gold...if he hadn't let so much of it rot for the past 20yrs...

Thanks Tony. Looks like your pole barn is coming along. I like the steel trusses. The vaulted ceilings will be great.

Yes, I have the Grizzly G1006/G1007 that was made in 2004. It had a CNC system added to it. And they even upgraded the lead screw to CNC set up. Unfortunately the system that they used back then had some bugs in it. And when the gentleman that converted it and new how to use it passed away. Well, the machine got pushed in the corner. Then when they moved this past spring. My brother who works in maintenance was told to make that thing work or get rid of it. So it was put up for sale with a starting bid of $20.00 they way it sat. After 7 days the bid was $50.00 for scrap. We bid $60.00 and bought it. And fortunately my brother knew where all the manual parts where that where taken off when it was converted to CNC. Well at least most of them. So we got it home and started putting her back together. With a little help from a online Manual and several photos and You Tube videos we figured it out what went where. We had to add a DRO for the quill as the depth scale thing on the front was missing, and not available from Grizzly. But ill say this, The DRO was easy to add, So much that I have plans this winter to add 2 more to the X and Y control's. These are very ridged machines, you aren't going to take huge cuts like a Bridgeport would. But for a small footprint machine for a home shop, there a handy tool to have. Now I'm in the market for a ridged machine like a Acer or Bridgeport knee mill. I'm hooked on making stuff in my own shop.

I have been looking. Want to find one with enough stroke for the longer broaches.

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Amen brother. Ive recently found that the scrap yard is my new friend. I went down and spoke with the manager and the owner (his father) and made it known what im looking for. And would be happy to pay him 20% more that scrap weight price for anything that he had that I could use. So back in the summer i got a call from him and said I think you might be interested in what we just took in. So with gloves in hand and tape measure and a cheap dial caliper off I went. To find a 20 yard roll off dumpster filled with solid round bar stock. Some of it was pretty rusted up and bent. However 80% of it was covered in oil and in fantastic shape. Nearly all of the straight pieces where less than 48" perfect size to be handled and loaded in the bed of my 2500 Silverado on a cheap plastic tarp. I found stuff from 1/8" all the way to 1.-1/8th then hit the jack pot. There was several piece of 1"x1"x 50" square and several 1.5"x1.5"x 50" also. Long and the short of it i bought nearly 900 lbs of scrap steel from this trip. So when i asked what do i owe you?? The owner ( a grumpy old guy, So I thought) said to me "Take it, But one of these days im going call you and need you to make me a pin or a simple part for one of these old machines we run. Can you afford that??" I laughed and said Yea, I think I can afford that. Since that day he's no longer been that grumpy old guy I see at the donut shop in the morning on Fridays. And he hasn't had to buy a coffee or his favorite 🍩 since. There's so much stuff thats scrapped today thats its unreal. We have another place here that sells steel "Drops by the current scrap price. They've got to the point they post a weekly list of whats available. And started adding aluminum and stainless steel to the list recently. These are perfect places for a hobbyist or someone working on 1 of parts for farm or construction equipment to source material for the project with out going broke buying full sheets or full length pieces at market price. Especially when you only need a small amount of this material.

Yes, the fall colors are here. It looks nice.