Sean's Home for Retired Milling Machines

The Hubby has been spending a lot of time out in the shop on various projects. Last month he gained another project when the F250 blew a spark plug. He bought the kit to replace all ten spark plugs with inserts to prevent that problem from happening again. Most were fairly easy but several in the back were pretty difficult to replace. I believe it took him two weekends but he got them all replaced and the truck back to running smoothly.

As you can imagine, his knees hurt.

He's been on the hunt for the perfect milling machine to replace two of his current milling machines. He has a Bridgeport in pieces that he planned to restore but decided to replace it with a working machine and sell it. I think he's decided he has too many "project" mills and wants to actually use them rather than put them back together.

He found a nice one on Craigslist in working order and decided to buy it. He brought it home and then we had the fun opportunity to unload this 2700 pound piece of machinery off of our trailer. He loaded it onto the trailer using a Come-Along and a few lengths of pipe (and about three hours of time) so he used the same method to get it off the trailer. He slowly let the cable out of the Come-Along while I took the front pipe out and replaced it in the back. It worked great and since we had gravity on our side it went pretty quickly.

So now he has four milling machines in his small shop. I told him he's running a rescue for elderly milling machines. We'll see if he can rehome a couple of them to free up space.....for more.