3,500+ lbs of revolver accessories!

A bunch of repairs need a lathe and mill. Fortunately I was finally able to score two at pretty good prices. They were dropped off last week.


The mill is a Wells Index 700 that seems to be around 3,000(!) lbs.

The lathe is a very old but very clean southbend engine lathe with a lot of tooling.

I was hoping to get a used hardinge or equivalent, but the SB was $1000 and close to my house. The guy that had it restored old cars and had an immaculate tool room. I want to buy everything from him :)

The mill was only slightly more, also close to my house. It *seems* I can use it manually. I hope so. If not, it seems I can sell it for more than I paid so at least there is always that escape route. (Same is true for the lathe.) It's dirty as hell, but the scrapings on the ways are still mostly there. The major downside is that there is no tooling, but I'm *hoping* I can fix this easily. The wells index people still service their machines , so at least it's not obsolete. (Update: it's also up in the air if I can make the quill hold the Z position w/o the servo on. Argh.)

The main barrier for both is that I don't have a 220 outlet in my garage yet, nor a phase converter. Hopefully the former will get sorted early next week.