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space savings and multi useage, I wasn't even planning on getting a mill when I started the machining course, I was taking it just for the lathe portion, I now want a mill 🙁

I had been thinking of getting this and a separate lathe

https://maine.craigslist.org/tls/5475416627.html

I could make the space, I would just need to remove about 4 feet of the workbench, that enco would blow the smithy away. It would be a lot easier to set up for a dro as well.

Came across this great site from a guy who uses the same model

http://rick.sparber......g/ma.htm#4

it does, he said he had vice, clamping set, collets, end mills, and a few other things, been doing some research tonight and here is the newer model

http://www.use-enco......TPG=INLMK3

which is the same as the grizzly

http://grizzly.com/p.....able/G0705

which is the same as the harbor freight

http://www.harborfre.....33686.html

the encos and grizzly have a 2 hp motor while the HF has a 1.5 hp though

so a new enco and grizzly would be about 400 dollars more than what he is asking and a HF could be had for the same price with the 20 percent discount coupon, but not really interested in the HF

He said he bought this in a lot purchase and is just trying to dump it, so I am going to do some price negotiation and see what he says, if he is the firm on the price I might as well just get a new one I'm thinking.

well he had to cancel so we decided to go check out the 3 in 1 here in maine

http://maine.craigsl.....34057.html

it has a couple issues, it really needed to be broken down, cleaned, oiled and greased though. It hadn't been used in 3 years and was in pretty rough shape.

So I asked him how much he would take.

1200

I can't do that.

Well how much can you do?

I'd be into for 800.

I can't go that low, I paid 2000 for it.

I said yeah but that was 16 years a go and I can buy a new one for 1600, I can't justify spending 1200 for a machine that needs so much work.

He didn't believe me that they were 1600 so I pulled out my phone and showed him.

I could take 1100 he said.

I still can't do that, 800 would be the most I would be willing to spend.

I have a round milling vice that I can throw in.

Still, I can't do that.

So we shook hands and left.

Onto the next one, hopefully the one with all the tooling doesn't sell before I have a chance to get there.

Seeing the 3 in 1 in person though did cement my thoughts of getting one versus separate machines at this point, it really is the perfect size.