16-12-2020, 08:06 PM
Hi Bob46
It is astonishing how relatively cheap tools and machines are today. I bought one of those mill drills about 1974. Cost about $1200 my house $20,000 The same machine today is about double the price, the very same house in same state $700,000! ($2 to pound)
Wages not quite so rampant. I found it a bit lacking in rigidity. Substitutd a heavy plate for the name plate and fit a light angle iron cross brace in front if necessary.
It is astonishing how relatively cheap tools and machines are today. I bought one of those mill drills about 1974. Cost about $1200 my house $20,000 The same machine today is about double the price, the very same house in same state $700,000! ($2 to pound)
Wages not quite so rampant. I found it a bit lacking in rigidity. Substitutd a heavy plate for the name plate and fit a light angle iron cross brace in front if necessary.