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Vintage Milling Machine, $3500, Calgary, AB

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Ironman said:
The price boggles me. I paid the same price for my Lagun FTV 3 mill with DRO
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Thing is, this one will bit in a basement corner shop, and one guy can get it in and out. That drives a lot of the price up. FWIW, I paid $1600 for a CNC milling machine that was one serial number away from the one I used regularly at work... But 4000 pounds of iron and steel is still 4000 pounds, and requires some infrastructure to deal with...

And, that you don't get much more in the way of capacity in a Chinese import mill, which I guarantee you, will not run as smoothly, or generally give you the sense that anyone actually cared about the fit and finish quality of, in use, so there is that too.
 
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