Posted by Raul.
Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.
Posted on 2/24/2000 2:17 PM MST
In Reply to: Please post Sources posted by Joe Johnson on 2/24/2000 9:00 AM MST:
There are two good sources of good quality and good value machine tools:
Grizzly Imports (
www.grizzly.com)
Harbor Freight (
www.harborfreight.com)
I have bought many wood working and machine tools for my home shop from them and have never, never had a failure or been disappointed with their products.
One of the retired machinest who works on our robot just bought the mini lathe from Harbor Frieght and is very satisfied with it.
As for the welder, it is difficult to judge MIG welders, especially portable ones. Our expert welder (and I mean he is really good) says that only a TIG welder will do a reliable job on aluminum (especially the thin stuff) and those are not very portable.
Good luck,
Raul