Hi Guys,
Some of you might recognize my handle from HMEM as a total novice machinist. I am retired (too early, I'm starting to think) after a path through industrial electrics/electronics and have started machining on a hobby scale. I want to go bigger.
Nearly 500km from me is this Korradi UW1 for sale for around the price of a good German or Spanish Knee mill for the equivalent of US$5000, what you pay in these parts in our thin flat South African Rands (New Issue Mandelas).
It seems like a really neat machine. I think it has all it's horizontal milling fixtures, two heads, two different tables with a dividing head to sweeten the deal.
Any opinions about the machine? I hope I can see the machine under power, probably not. What would be deal breakers on a first inspection? I don't want a project machine but I'll attend to the smaller problems. Other thing that's really important, I'm so totally convinced I'm gonna get this green monster, is how to lift it and transport it. (Should I be saying she and her?) She looks a bit top heavy, Is that a good/bad design? It looks like it can come all the way to Harrismith on the back of a crane truck, from there on a 3Ton flatbed to my home town where another guy with a crane truck wants to unload it for me.
Learning to mill on such an awesome machine ...
Ant
Some of you might recognize my handle from HMEM as a total novice machinist. I am retired (too early, I'm starting to think) after a path through industrial electrics/electronics and have started machining on a hobby scale. I want to go bigger.
Nearly 500km from me is this Korradi UW1 for sale for around the price of a good German or Spanish Knee mill for the equivalent of US$5000, what you pay in these parts in our thin flat South African Rands (New Issue Mandelas).
It seems like a really neat machine. I think it has all it's horizontal milling fixtures, two heads, two different tables with a dividing head to sweeten the deal.
Any opinions about the machine? I hope I can see the machine under power, probably not. What would be deal breakers on a first inspection? I don't want a project machine but I'll attend to the smaller problems. Other thing that's really important, I'm so totally convinced I'm gonna get this green monster, is how to lift it and transport it. (Should I be saying she and her?) She looks a bit top heavy, Is that a good/bad design? It looks like it can come all the way to Harrismith on the back of a crane truck, from there on a 3Ton flatbed to my home town where another guy with a crane truck wants to unload it for me.
Learning to mill on such an awesome machine ...
Ant