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Saw a hand cranked mill at a shop in Dayton last month and now my 1988 Mazak looks like a toy
Stopped into an old job shop in Dayton last month while visiting my brother and the owner showed me a Bridgeport he still runs every day, serial plate says 1952. He told me it holds tenths better than the two brand new VMCs sitting behind it, and honestly watching him dial in a bore by feel made me feel like I've been leaning on my DRO as a crutch. Anybody here ever run a machine older than they are, and did it actually teach you anything or was it just nostalgia?
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noah_palmer426h ago
Ha, gotta push back a little on the "holds tenths" thing. A worn out manual mill holding tenths all day? That's not really how it works. Those old Bridgeports can still cut nice parts in the right hands, but tenths is more about the guy turning the dials than the machine itself. A clapped out leadscrew has backlash you can't just feel your way around forever. What that old timer really has is years of knowing exactly how his machine lies to him and making up for it.
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