Mill conversion. Home made "Marvin" attachment

[mwmkravchenko]

a place I workd back in the mid 90's tried to give me a horizontal and a shaper. I had no way of getting them home as well as a 1 car garage... I wish i had got them. 3 years lator I built a 24x34' shop/garage 6 steps out my bedroom door. oh well I got a millport 9x42 around 2008 and a enco bench top mill around 2001. one free one for $500 pluss $100 to move the big one. I wanted CNC but you take what you can afford. like the new enco 9x20 lathe that was broken in shipping I got for about $200 that took me a day to fix then another day to get the enco out of it...all the gear shafts have a keyway sleve(built in key way on a sleve so they dont have to sleve the shaft I reckon) all of those were made offset.... what a effing wining noise all those gears made. I fixed them and a few other crap things and you cant hear it run now. not bad for a light duty 9x20. it's almost as usefull as my 7x14 mini lathe. but no where as stiff.I need to mount the 9x20 on a peice of granite.off coarse Ill have to tear it all appart and put the bed on my mill upside down and sqwuare up the bottom mounts to the ways first
I too have a lot of bangod stuff.chucks,end mills,carbides tool holders, calipers etc, but now days it's cheeper and faster on ebay.

Try aliexpress. Some of the stuff is very reasonable. Not all of it. As you say, some is good on ebay or Amazon. I shop a bit. Sometime 30 minutes comparative shopping allows you to save $10.

Mark