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Originally Posted by Lowfategg
For setting up our shop this year, we collected the following. Our whole robot lab is in a two car garage, which we do everything in.
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I'm assuming you are referring to a typical residential two car garage here?
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Originally Posted by Lowfategg
“Bridgeport” knee mill 9x32" w/DRO (During the build season this was the most used tool in the shop, but if I could buy one again I would get the larger 42" table. You can get them cheap if you look hard enough, we grabbed ours for $500. They might be big, but worth their weight in gold compared to benchtop mills.)
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Ok, I have heard similar stories from countless others over the years and I know they exist out there but I have just never been able to luck up on one of these $500 Bridgeport mill deals to save my life. I have been looking high and low for years but we just don't live in an area with a lot of manufacturing so these deals just don't seem to happen around here.
How does one get and move something like this to a home garage? I don't know of many homes with a forklift so just in case I ever do luck up on one of these deals I would sure like to know how others have manhandled a Bridgeport into their garage. Seriously, where is everyone finding these $500 Bridgeports and how are they moving them to their home shops?