New mill!

[cfos00]

Super excited, just got myself a manual mill that's much, much bigger and heavier than my harbor freight benchtop.

Weirdly, can't find much info on it. Anyone know anything about these mills? It's a Menards DL300-140 drilling & milling machine.

[BrickHaus]

I envy you sir. Been trolling craigslist for such a machine. Looks pretty perfect for the hobbyists.

[cfos00]

I actually got it off CL from the same guy that I got my lathe from. He hardly used either, and it worked out really well for me last time.

[Ratzo]

Looks identical to my Busy Bee mill, not sure the model number.
I think mine is from the early 80's.

[Trbo323]

Can I ask what you paid for it? Id love to do something like that some day

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[cfos00]

I got it for $750, and plan on selling on little mill for $500. So basically paying $250 after all is said and done for a much bigger, heavier mill. I'm happy with that.

[netsurferdude2]

Great price. Round column mills like that go for at $1500 around here. Does it use R8 collets?

[cfos00]

Sure does! Which I have a full set of already. Sold the old mill today for the $500 too.

The guy I got it from said that he was seeing them go for 2k around here lately, but we're sorta friends at this point, and still was good with honoring the $750 we had agreed on earlier. I had even told her he could sell it for more to someone else if he wanted, but he stuck to his word.

[Kit]

Looks to be a copy of this mill.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/rusnok/

[cfos00]

Made some chips today just to run it, and it felt like the mill barely noticed the aluminum. AWESOME!!!