I think thanks to this group I found the Centec user group who are into the Centec 2A and above mills that added a vertical capacity to the basic Centec 2 that I have.
Very interesting threads and I must finish my resoration of the little #2
Anyways to continue the story:
Santa has indicated that MAYBE a new vertical mill MAY be authorised by the house committee!
Doing a lot of reading and researching I found this combo mill on the Axminster site:
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-engineer-series-su1-universal-millSo the idea lives on! As I need a Drill/V.Mill I won't be buying one of these but its a lovely little machine!
Anyone goy one?
So I won't even resurect the 5 page "flamey" thread from last year about which mill (but got hi-jacked about MT versus R8).
I really like the look of this from Axminster:
http://www.amadeal.co.uk/acatalog/AMA25LV---R8-Spindle-825.html#SID=140They even have a full DRO'd option (What WILL Santa say about that)
There is a great review of the machine and how to take it apart, clean it, move it and re-assemble it.
I don't want a second hand machine and shipping to Ireland is a consideraion. New equipment suppliers use agents who understand where Dublin is!
Who has one and what are they like/ Anyone got the DRO version?