Both machines are in great shape & seem to be fine after the move from his shop to my garage - which was quite an adventure. Took most of yesterday to get them out of his shop & on my trailer & then took a good while today for me to get them set up & power ran to the lathe in my garage. they are 7 y/o & look like they had little use. As clean as they are in the pic is as clean as they (& everything else) were in the guy's shop.
The knee mill is 110v which is really nice. 1.5 HP & looks like a juvenile Bridgeport. No power feeds in any axis or any kind of DROs, but does have a one-shot oil system. Change belt positions to change spindle speed. R8 tooling. Came with an upgraded milling vice that's huge, 20 endmills, a set of 6 new dovetail cutters (don't know what I'd use them for), and 2 fly cutters that take inserts. The only marking on it is ZX5015. Looks similar to the Grizzly G3102. The way cover is ripped, but otherwise I haven't found anything wrong with it yet.
The lathe is a 13x40 gearhead. Change the speeds by the selector switches is kind of trial & error to get them engaged. They're so close it's kind of hard to tell if you moved 1 or 2 positions sometimes. But a little fiddling gets them there. Has what looks like a 1 1/2 spindle bore. I didn't measure - could be a bit smaller, but decent sized. Slowest speed is 60rpm so that should be ok for threading. 4 jaw chuck is brand new looking as are the steady & follow rests. Came with a ton of tooling. Knurling tools, a dozen or so insert type cutters, bunch of new inserts, bunch of HSS ground tools, 2 dead & 2 live centers, faceplate, dogs, couple drill chucks, boring bars, etc, etc.
Can't figure out how to engage the power cross feed. The Engrish manual is hard to follow. It might not work or I might not be doing what I need to do to make it engage. E-stop is broken & I think that's also how you turn it off. I put a breaker right there to serve as an E-stop & to kill the power when not in use. I have it on the same circuit as my hot water heater so we'll see how that works out if they both want to be in cycle at the same time. I had to add on to my main fuse panel to run the 240v for the water heater (had gas before), so I'm all out of space & don't feel like messing with that again. If i were just a little smarter the panel I added last time would have been bigger. I think it's a 30 amp breaker at the main panel so that might be good enough for both - no idea what either uses. Lathe is a 2hp motor which is probably about 10 amps.
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