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Re: update - cheap mill-drill

To: Mike Sloane <msloane@att.net>
Subject: Re: update - cheap mill-drill
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:23:16 -0800
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:51:43PM -0500, Mike Sloane wrote:
> 
> Sometimes you can find old steel desks at used office furniture dealers.
> You can get one that is pretty ugly and somewhat beat up for almost
> nothing, but they are very sturdy with lots of room for tools, fixtures,
> etc. As far as a coolant recovery tray, you can probably look around for
> some kind of plastic tray that would do the job - think industrial foot
> wash, agricultural, or food industry, etc. You could either sit down at
> the machine to work or make some simple legs out of scrap square steel
> tubing to raise the whole thing up to whatever height you like.

This guy made a nice table for his mill-drill and bench lathe:
http://www.wcc.net/~jkmccoy/shop/milldril.htm

It's got wheels and jacks to stabilize and level it., plus
a coolant pump for both machines and drawers.



Eric

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