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Hey Mike , I refer mostly to the * FLAKING * , as others have also noted. Being done on the front

surface of the saddle , where it is normally painted.

I wonder just a bit , if the *Current* offerings from Bridgeport are having some influence on this seemingly ever growing tendency for this application . For one thing all "NEW" Bridgeport?

KNEE Mills are now called - " Series 1 " .

The current mills have more apparent *FLAKING*

in the way surfaces. But a very apparent surface

patterned cross flake applied to table top side.

This has / had become a very typical appearance

for brand new ASIAN Milling machines for quite

some time as far as the WAY surfaces . Most

surprisingly to me , on the "CHROME" surfaces.

Those were at least designed to be COVERED by

the rubber bellows originally. Having it applied to bare ways just seems self defeating for longevity.

Applied to the UNDER side is logical. But......

Not "PRETTY" for show ? ?

first hand.

I had to pass on several mills offered locally. Most disappointing to decline on a unit 3 miles from home for me. Even at a mere $500 dollars. I didn't think that ,? ° PEELING ° Chrome ways was any great improvement over my rather WORN ones.

BTW Mike , is your mill a 48" table , I thought it looked that way. My poor old machine had the arguably WORST offering . The 42" table is fine , but once you attach the " Hundred Pound" gearbox of the 1956 Power feed is seems very long !

Oh yeah , BTW , that gearbox was BROKEN OFF of my mill when I got it over 20 years ago. I also believe it was broken off MORE than once . ?

There was a WELDED part of the housing in place when I got it. But....there was a - New - fracture evident in the housing where it once WAS .

Having witnessed more calamities than I care to recall over the decades in Laboratories and Machine Shops , I have virtually NO DOUBT all the fasteners , handles,levers & buttons bent ,missing or poorly replaced on my J-Head were rooted by a FORKLIFT being nearby. ?

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