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Thread: Is a Balding Beaver any good?
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25th June 2008, 02:50 PM #1
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Is a Balding Beaver any good?
Here's a link to a current Graysonline auction. The machine in question is a Beaver Mill by Balding Engineering. Anyone here have any comments about the mill (please try to restrain yourselves, despite my moderator baiting title)
Greg
http://www.graysonline.com.au/lot.asp?LOT_ID=2728427
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25th June 2008, 03:05 PM #2
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Well..................nah can't let it go.
If youv'e got to ask you probably won't know how to use it.
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25th June 2008, 03:20 PM #3
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I don't know anything about them. With that in mind:
Doesn't seem to have much tooling with it. If I read the site properly the price is a bit high ($2884?).
If you watch ebay there are good solid mills up all the time that go for trivial sums. They are much cheaper than lathes. Also the value of a mill is much more dependant on tooling than a lathe, and tooling isn't cheap, so if you get very little with the machine there are bills down the road.
If it were me I'd be chasing something old and solid at small $ and then pay to get it put right (or do it myself). But as with the other thread I have my own preferences on machines. I like them low teck and stiff. Never seen the use in digital readouts and such. Here are a couple of recent sales on ebay. Some didn't sell.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Conti-Univers...QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BRIDGEPORT-MI...QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Bridgeport-Mi...QQcmdZViewItem
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25th June 2008, 07:30 PM #4
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I don't know anything of the mill you linked to, however in response to......
My answer is "generally Yes."Is a Balding Beaver any good?
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25th June 2008, 07:39 PM #5
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I have generally found the balding ones are a bit smoother to operate.
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27th June 2008, 01:44 PM #6
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I was interested myself but the price was too high. It eventually sold for over $3000 and then there is the buyers premium of 15% and GST 10%, Making the final price close to $4000!
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27th June 2008, 02:03 PM #7
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Thanks for playing everyone...I was expecting a more wholesale onslaught than this. As it turns out I couldn't get enough encouragement from anybody to make me drive over there and inspect. Gray's is my lease favourite way of buying anything (except turps), and the added fees get silly. Almost everything I'm interested in goes dear as well...often to reappear on eBay the next week with no takers.
BTW..."they're smoother to operate" is just great. (we need an emoticon for: Makes wistful sighing noise, but can't quite remember why)
Greg
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