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Originally Posted by Simon Strauss
Across this forum i have heard bad things about the quality of the hand tools sold on Harbor Freight and i was wondering if anyone had experience or insight into whether or not this applies to their larger products. My team is looking into purchasing this mill from them and want to know if it will be reliable(i expect a 2dollar hammer to fall apart not a 900$ mill) and worth our money.
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Simon;
Check out this one instead from Harbor Freight or Grizzley as well.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93885
It has a dovetail colume and does not suffer from the same problem as round colume mills. An additional resource to check out is
www.mini-lathe.com. The author has a wealth of details about HF small mills and lathes with shortcoming/strengths, setup, fixes, projects etc. He is just starting a review of the HF mill mentioned above and it looks very promising. I personally have the earlier HF minilathe and minimill. I have found them to be sturdy and well finished and fairly accurate. Actually I have had to learn much about machine tool setup and calibration anyway and this is an ideal low cost way to find out. By the way Mini-Lathe.com has many links to other sites to answer many of your questions as well. LRU