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No problems.? Good mill.? Not good like a Bridgeport, but fine for my garage.? And, of course, no 3-phase motor to have to deal with.? To get it home, I rented an engine lift (for lifting car engines out of cars) but couldn't rig it up to lift the mill high enough, since it is floor model style mill, to get it into a pickup truck bed.? So, I removed the head.? At work I made a thick steel plate with holes to match the column to bolt to and hooked onto the plate.? I could then lift the column/table/base high enough to get into the pickup bed.? And just reversed the procedure at home.

I've also been happy with my Shen-Wai 12x36.? I previously had a Jet belt drive bench top 12x36 which was a perfectly OK lathe but wanted to go a step higher.? The Shen-Wai is geared head with a D1-4 camlock spindle and a removable gap.? That came in real handy once when a 10" South Bend Precision model where I was working at the time couldn't swing something too large for it at about 15 inches (disk like shape), so the part at home with the gap filler removed.? We had a couple machine shops on our same street we used all the time who could have easily done it, but I could do it free, and overnight.? Also, it has a minimum speed of 40 rpm which is pretty unusual.? Most lathes in that class only go down to 70 rpm.

The lathes.co.uk site has a Kao Fong horizontal mill shown.? I guess I should send them a photo of my vertical mill to add.

I got mine in the 1980's, I'm pretty sure.

Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer