My "new" mill

[MrForbes]

Look what I hauled home last week. I found it for $150 on craigslist and managed to be the first guy there with cash. It's a Jet (made in Taiwan) 1980 vintage JVM-840 vertical mill. I've since torn it mostly all apart, and put it back together again. It has some wear, but it looks like it'll be useable. I don't really have much use for a mill around the home shop, but it's been fun working on it, and I should be able to get it making chips for under $350 total. I got some tooling from a friend, and bought a Variable Frequency Drive on ebay for $30 to try. The mill has a one HP three phase motor, the power switch was fried, I think that's why it was removed from service, as the previous owner said it needed a new motor. I checked out the motor itself, it all appears to be ok. The mill weighs about half a ton, so it's not full Bridgeport size, and the table is only 7 x 30"

This may affect our ROV design for the new NURC game Trouble on Ceti-Alpha 3!