Broke down and bought a Sherline Mill

[BradNSW]

Pushed the purchase button!!!

Should have a 12" manual Sherline mill (w/accessory package) delivered in the next week or so!!

Watching the results many of you achieve using mills, I decided one was a "must have" before I proceed any further on my scratch build of La Salamandre!

Now I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas to arrive...Hope UPS is faster than Santa!!!!

 

[AllanKP69]

I decided one was a "must have" before I proceed any further on my scratch build

You are not alone. It is not the most used machine on my work bench but I LOVE the mill and it works great. I worked around not having one with a small press and hand tools for 40 years and now regret I did not get it a lot sooner.
Allan

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Make sure to post Santa unloading from his sleigh, I am sure the deer will be glad to lighten the load!

Congrats on your decision.

 

[Roger Pellett]

I have a Sherline lathe and for milling a column that sets up the lathe for milling. Works great but having to break down the lathe for milling is a nuisance. It would be nice to have a separate mill.

Roger

 

[Kurt Konrath]

What is the old saying "to each, their own" I have a mini-Unimat unit which can also be converted from lathe to mill, but then it needs reset and aligned each time you change over.

 

[Roger Pellett]

The Sherline is nicely engineered so that realignment from lathe to mill and vice versa is not necessary. They claim that the conversion takes about a minute which is probably correct but the cross slide must then serve as the milling table and mounting the milling vise is a fiddily job for these old fingers.

Roger