6x26 Harbor Freight mill vs 8x30 Grizzly mill - The Hobby-Machinist
Feb 25, 2021 · I was looking to purchase a mini knee mill mill and I'm having trouble deciding between the Harbor Freight 40939 6x26 or the Grizzly G0678 8x30. The Harbor freight is $1850 plus shipping …
HF 40939 - 6x26 - Discontinued - The Hobby-Machinist
Jan 13, 2023 · HF discontinued their 33686 round column mill and they were selling like crazy. Grizzly still sells the identical machine at twice the price. Maybe they dump the stuff with smaller profit margins.
Modifying a Harbor Freight 6X26 Knee Mill - The Hobby-Machinist
Jan 31, 2018 · I picked up this knee mill on CL about a year ago. The P.O. had already installed the power feed on the X axis, a home made power draw bar and DRO. I have since refit the scales to the …
Central Machinery (Harbor Freight) 8 x 26 Knee Mill Upgrades
Sep 6, 2021 · Of course, no mill can really call itself a mill if it doesn't have a DRO (OK, so I am a milling machine snob!), and operations on the X-axis are just absurd without a motor drive. The milling itself …
Harbour freight 44991 mill/drill | The Hobby-Machinist
Jan 22, 2017 · The Little machine is capable of doing most milling operations the big machines do, just a lot slower since it is not rigid enough or powerful enough to take large cuts. You work within its …
Central machinery model 33686 - The Hobby-Machinist
Feb 2, 2013 · Now that he is retiring, the machine has to go. I looked it up in Harbor Freight and it sells for $1499 now so the asking price of $650 seems too good to let it slip away. This one has a 2hp …
Mini mills - are they worth it and which ones - The Hobby-Machinist
Aug 1, 2014 · My mill is from Harbor Freight. It has been converted to CNC. I'm finding it hard to justify the cost of the CAD/CAM software. I mostly run it in Semi-auto mode. Grizzly tends to have higher …
Converting to collets on Central Machinery T5980 (Harbor Freight)
Mar 19, 2025 · I can’t say for certain, but if the quill has a internal MT2 taper for the drill chuck - there may be an access slot on the side of the spindle. It may need to have the quill extended to see the …
Talk me out of a used Harbor Freight knee mill
Jul 14, 2019 · And at that price they sell fast. I recently located a used Harbor Freight knee mill with a very basic set of tooling for $1,000. It is about 3 years old and used very little. Only mark on it is on …
DIY Riser Block for 6" x 26" Import Mills (Grizzly, Enco, Harbor ...
Jan 30, 2021 · A lack of distance between the spindle and table appears to be a universal issue for owners of these popular import mills. I think I may have come up with a relatively easy to fabricate …