On Monday 08 February 2021 17:36:35 Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/08/2021 12:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you've room for it Jon I expect it would be a pretty good deal at > > that price. But check the ceiling height it needs too, that looks to > > be in excess of the usual 96" tall. I'd probably be 5 or 6"" or so > > thru the ceiling in my garage. With 3 containers of tooling, heck of > > a deal. If I had room for it... > > Oh YEAH! That's why I can't have a Bridgeport BOSS machine, > the top of the head would be WAY up inside the kitchen > cabinets! I have a fairly low ceiling in my basement. So, > that is one of the important details to keep in mind. > > > Freight would likely be substantial. > > > > I wonder what the catch is? Dead bandit maybe? At its age, going on > > 35 years, the electrolytics in the various psu's are likely way > > overdue for new ones. > > Yes, the Bandit control is quite mediocre, and almost > certainly now kaput. No way I'd want to even mess with it. > The motors are probably fine, the encoders might be too low > resolution. My Bridgeport has some wear in the saddle and > table and so machines a kind of saddle shape a few > thousandths of an inch out of plane. The big issue is the Y > travel is limited to 7" the way I did the > ballscrew retrofit. That occasionally gets in the way. I > have a 12" Bridgeport knee and a bunch of BOSS parts like > the ballscrews here, but don't want to take the machine > apart for a couple months minimum to swap those parts. > > Jon
If its just parts swapping, why would it take 2 months? Of course its like we used to say when doing an engine swap to hide a big v8 under an I6 label on the side of the hood. Get everything to do it in one pile, and put $500 in the billfold for the nuts and bolts you'll need, gas and oxy for the smith wrench etc etc. I used to enjoy building concealed weapons for the stoplight grand prix. Raise the hood on a 49 nash Ambassadore, looks stock except the air cleaner, did a 1/4 at Cordova Il in 15.76 secs, about 2 faster than any other F-stock that day. That 231 cid big 6 had all the right stuff in it from the factory, but was very crippled by the cam and timeing of both the ignition and the valves. I showed several with thousands in a rip snorting ford flat top how to watch my tail lights get closer and closer together, and nothing their screaming for more air fords could do about it. The cam was as square as it could be with a 2.25" mushroom faced tappet, the valves were tulipped and double sprung and it was still pulling hard at 7 grand. And it was efficient, take it out on the highway and hang the speedo needle straight down for 150 miles, averaged 20 mpg from Iowa City to Redfield, in US-6 traffic but less than 2 hours. Fun times, 65 years ago. > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
