Yes, you should do a raffle or something, especially the mill, to give the younger guys a taste of creation. I'm 58 and have been helping a machinist do some work lately and I'm sorry I didn't see this career sooner. The craftsmanship is amazing. You have great content and I enjoy your love of machinery. Watching you get this stuff back up and running is awesome. Thanks.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man 🙏I appreciate you taking the time to watch

Worked in a bumper factory in 1971. Had to hit the two buttons at the same time to insure the press would go down and stamp out bumper without any chance whatsoever any part of us was in that press. I thoroughly enjoy your enthusiasm and appreciation of machines. It's obvious you love your occupation and have a gift for it. God bless.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

I definitely can see why the buttons should be there but for what I do sometimes I need to be backed away from it to make sure nothing will fly at me. Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it!

I’m a retired disabled veteran who would really love to have those machines. Man that press is so smooth, and the cnc mill Would be fun. Thanks for any consideration, and thanks for the video!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your service and the support 🙏

Regarding the punch block, I think the top of the block could have been attached to the head of the press. No need for springs n stuff when the presses head raises automatically. Would love that as a hobby mill, good find.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Ah… that totally makes sense!

Love seeing old(er) tools being cleaned up and given a new lease of life. I've been in the stamping tool and die business for the better part of 15 years and have never seen a hydraulic press system like that. Looks like it has had a couple hot suppers but still running like a champ and ready for another million parts. Great find!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

6 ай бұрын

🙏

Just found your channel today! I became a hobby machining junky 2 years ago and Love seeing these timeless pieces of equipment doing what they were intended to do. Great channel! Thanks for the entertainment

@prestigemanufacturing2611

6 ай бұрын

Thanks man. I really appreciate the support!

Cool vids man ! You are reviving the same old machines I saw get sold or scrapped when I secretly wanted to keep every decent one for myself. You're like the VGG of manufacturing equipment. Super smart as retrofitting this old equipment will become even more popular imo. 27 yrs in the trade, now a 5 axis aerospace programmer. But dude when I hear hydraulic activated foot pedal... I cringe. Worked at shop where 4 people put a foot operated live center through their hand while loading parts. They finally wired in hand controls on the hydraulic tailstock and it never happened again. I'm of the opinion that you should never be touching anything being pressed so I'd keep the 2 button deal

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight and support. I appreciate it !

Just subbed to the channel man. I'm 30 and have worked a production shop for the last 15 years. Just got off the manual lathes and onto a prototrak that my company purchased. I've been writing conversational code for the first time and really feel like this trade is for me. Never used a manual mill yet, but hope to transition into the tool and die part of the company soon. They got old bridgeports and would love to throw a DRO on them at the very minimum. Love that your spreading the knowledge, keep it up man.!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support man I appreciate it!

Your channel was on my suggested feed. Glad I stopped by. Like the content here.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it 🙏

Keep up the good work. Sometimes educated guesswork is what it takes. Been there done that in my current job. Im enjoying the content.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support I really appreciate it

You have an absolutely amazing channel, I work at a machine shop and do a lot of similar things to you and I enjoy watching these videos, I’ll be a long time subscriber, glad I found your channel

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks I really appreciate it 🙏

Man, that mill sounds awesome!! Giving away that equipment would mark you as a very generous man. Either way, I'm in for more content!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

🙏🙏

The Bridgeport computer needs to be turned on in the cabinet, you almost had it when you opened the door.

There are several examples of converting this style Mill to CNC with a Centroid Acorn controller. Not very expensive to do. It depends on if those servos are AC. The Acorn does not support DC servos but will accept AC servos or stepper motors. Modern AC Servos are not expensive compared to the original motors...

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!

I’m 23, been doing CNC programming/making parts since 18. I’d love to be able to collect machines like these one day and use them for whatever they’re capable of.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Nice! Keep at it.

I'm really torn... I'd love to maybe get the Bridgeport in a give away of some kind... but I'd also love to see it get retro fitted for CNC... Either way, love the videos!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it

I have the same mill, but didn't quite as good a deal. I think I paid more like $700 for it back in the early 90's. At that time it wasn't too bad a deal. George Bush slapped higher import taxes on imported metal causing all metal prices to skyrocket. It was an auction purchase as well at a time the economy was going into a recession and lots of businesses were failing. It's currently waiting in storage for me to retire and retrofit it's controls ultimately for my hobby projects. For a period of time it was stored at a friends machine shop and was used for a few production runs in return for the storage space. I can tell you that as is, it probably won't be the most reliable in terms of the electronics. The Boss control was okay and I don't remember it giving me any problems other than I thought the control was dead the first time I powered it up. I don't remember exactly what I did to get the control going. It could have been something as simple as the right sequence of keys. I can tell you the Boss control does not require an Exec tape for startup like a lot of other controls of the era. From what I recall from about 15 years ago: The good: There is a way to download programs to the control via RS-232. There is a selector switch to select Remote Data Input and download programs to it. If I remember right it's a push button in addition to a selector switch, so rotate and push. Baud rate is going to be slow and probably 300, maybe 1200 at best. I don't think it was an odd rate like 150, or 600. I don't remember where the port on the machine is located....I want to say the back of the machine somewhere. The "quick change" tooling was okay and better than an R8 collet, , but obviously not as good as having an ATC. The bad: It will eat output transistors that drive the stepper motors. I think the transistors are 2N3055 and they tend to fail frequently. The transistors are not extremely expensive, but seem to know when you really need them not to. I read somewhere a long time ago that the motors cause the failure of the transistors. The machine only full steps, so 200 step per revolution to each axis. I believe when new it was engineered to have 0.001" as the smallest move on any axis. The only axis that has something resembling a home position is the Z-axis. You'll notice if looking at the control, there aren't any "home" buttons for the machine. There are two mechanical counters, each one is located on the X-axis and Y-axis. These are "machine zero" as I understand it. I used this location to initially set zero for the X & Y axes, then rapid to where I wanted X0 & Y0 to be for the work piece and fixture on the table, and finally use G92 to establish the part origin in the lower left corner. If I wrote down the mechanical counter counts, it wasn't necessary to to use the "machine zero" reference until the next setup. I don't think the control will keep the program after cycling the power. The Z-axis has a vernier scale on the bottom of the motor shaft that probably isn't noticeable or readable unless relatively clean. It was a way of determining if Z-axis was off a few thousands from the last time the machine was run. I think you're getting the idea it's a quirky machine to use by today's standards. I forgot to mention there is a legend at the top of the control with three colors indicating what buttons are active for a given mode of the machine....Run, Setup, and MDI. The background color behind the button, knob, etc. indicates when the switch is active. I hope to do the retrofit to my mill within the next couple of years. I'm leaning toward either LinuxCNC or Centroid Acorn. I've looked at the Stepper Online products and considering their 34HS59-6004D-E1000 and control as a compromise between an open loop stepper system and servo system. I don't know as I can really justify the cost of a true servo based system on a non-production machine used for hobby stuff. I'm also going to use a variable frequency drive that supports single phase input to control the three phase spindle motor instead of using a phase converter. As I recall the spindle motor is the only thing on the machine that really is three phase. One of the disadvantages of using the VFD is the induced shaft current that will flow to ground through the shaft bearings. It's a small current, but over time will damage the bearings due to the motor is not designed to be used with a VFD. Wow! That ended up being a lot longer than I planned when staring to type. Good luck.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the good info on the machine. More than likely I’d I get the time I’m going to just retro fit it using uccnc because I’m familiar with that from making my CNC plasma table.

Be pretty cool to see the Bridgeport converted to modern controls

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

If I don’t do a giveaway I might do it.

Man one more comment please send to me. I am working on an experimental aircrat and it would be supper for pess all of the lightning holes, I would have to punch out the holes in the ribs. Then press the bends, which including the lightning holes. Save would save a boat load of time ~~ Cris H.

You have an awesome shop with some nice machines.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks I appreciate it 🙏

I worked for an employer who had a similar mill, he occasionally had to replace transistors in the back of the machine. If i recall he had his machine able to recive programs off an old computer rather than using the punch tape. I suggest upgrading the machine while preserving the old technology.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

I’m going to look at the transistor if I get time for sure

@user-oz9sy8wx3p

8 ай бұрын

@@prestigemanufacturing2611 There may be a battery, but I could be thinking of a different machine.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

@@user-oz9sy8wx3p I’m going to look through it if I get time for sure

Great videos. I need a big monarch lathe like yours. What model is yours

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Hey thanks for the support. I really appreciate it. My Monarch is a 18 1/2" X 78"

I’d love to get that bridgeport and convert out to modern cnc haha.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate the support!

That's a badass press, dont give it away. Keep it. I'm sure I stead of momentary contacts you could do a reostat to slow it down. I'm sure the limit switch sets travel. As is its more of a punching press because of how fast it is ans how it cycles If you had a die set made to do something for a customer you could knock out some stamped parts fast.. holes, slotted holes, etc

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

That press is a beautiful thing!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

You can test that contactor by pushing in the buttons with a screwdriver. The contactor protects the motor and is easy to fix or replace. The machine is prob wired for 480 not 208 like your rotary. You can rewire the motor and change the contactor then it would be proper.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip and support I really appreciate it.

Forklift looks like a big version of my 1960s Hyster s40c, thing just will not die...

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Its a Hyster Supersaver 15k capacity forklift and your right, it can't be stopped lol. Thanks for the support I really appreciate it!

limit switch needs a locking or adjustable slide bar

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking too

Heck yeah, I’d love to have the press!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input. I appreciate the support!

Awesome find for a great deal

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Man I would love to win something like that Bridgeport! I only have tabletop milling that wont handle steel.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support man. If enough people tell me they’d want that I’ll definitely give them away

i would like to see you go through the cnc in fair depth and then possibly give it away if it seems like a reliable machine.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback I appreciate it

It's wild that that old dinosaur of a Bridgeport uses stepper motors. Regardless, I'd be replacing them. Should be a trivial job for someone with good equipment and fab skills. Servos if you can afford it or even just steppers again for budget.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

It’s definitely a old machine worth saving

@shammient

7 ай бұрын

@@prestigemanufacturing2611 without a doubt.

I need a Bridgeport and a lathe badly.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply. If I get enough messages about the giveaway, I’m definitely going to give away one or both of these machines.

A give away would be pretty awesome.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply

Man for a buck fifty that press is sick, and that port would be a slighter older style of cnc that I've got, just sucks how much it cost to fully convert to a more modern control. I made sure to buy mine with a lesser dated (but nowhere new the latest and greatest before doing a plug an play controller swap on it). You plan on keeping that fadal?

@prestigemanufacturing2611

6 ай бұрын

I actually sold it shortly after the video came out 😀

@wolfhausindustries

6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah good for you brother! Question though, outside of youtube, do you got a particular place you typically post your used machines up for sale on? Like ebay, or one of the machine auction sites, or your own website? Just wondering cuz if so, I'd like to be able to keep up with that just as much, if not more than the youtube videos. @@prestigemanufacturing2611

Maybe that die is for handle bar dimples

@prestigemanufacturing2611

6 ай бұрын

That could be

I am a sucker for a good machine auction... dragging home stray machines.... giving then new homes where they can function...

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Me too 😂

Love old Tools.. if it wasn't for old Tools...we wouldn't have the world we have today

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

They really are a great machine I used mine to make 426 hemi cylinder heads on out of solid aluminum. I have a set on my Bonneville car that I made in my junior year of high school over summer vacation I made 20 Sets about 1976 over the years it must have been a couple hundred sets I remember taking cylinder heads to Eddie Hill at firebird lake twice once for top fuel boat then again for his dragster.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Nice! Thanks for the reply and support. I really appreciate it

I would love to have a chance at the press!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the input ! I appreciate the support

I think you should sell the press and convert mill into modern controls. Btw. it's not CNC (Computer Numerical Control) mill, it's NC (Numerical Control) as it does not have a program / G-Code processor (it's not fully automated). Installing some Mach3 boards, or even funnier OpenBUILDS BlackBox in this thing would be a great project to show. I live in a post-soviet country, we've a lot of 'scrap' machines here, but those were often treated like soviet machines (If you can't repair them with a hammer you need a bigger hammer, funny fact: this almost always work). Our "restoration companies" are genius enough to "resurface" ways using angle grinder. It's possible if you have enough knowledge and proper jig, but their work is usually a piece of crap with at least 0.1-0.2mm difference at 250mm. The only way to get good used machine here is to get lucky and grab it from military or get lucky and hit liquidated company before "restorators"... Of course we also have some great restoration companies who can refabricate entire machine from DTR (our local abbrev. for entire technical documentation delivered with machine), but their prices are sometimes crazy for common person (however I personally understand that knowledge requires to be paid for). I'm looking for a lathe and mill for my workshop, but I think I will probably build that myself cheaper than new and better than old "restored" machine (based on 1 year mark of searching for this thing)... Especially with my knowledge as software developer and a bit of skill as electronics engineer. I prefer building things than fixing things, as it often allows me to make it according to my taste... Anyways, great video. I was suprised with that press requiring only rewiring, but it's probably US thing not to test things before putting it on sale. Just get new machine, as this one is old and maybe someone with low budget and enough time / skill to fix this will have a starting point for his/her hobby. I would also check runout on that bridgeport spindle as it seems to slightly vibrate, but it may be a camera/recording issue.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

I had no idea finding machines over there was that difficult. I definitely learned something from your comment. Thanks for the support🙏

As much as I'd love a giveaway I dont think my 1 bedroom flat in scotland would appreciate the weight of such a thing hahaha

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Definitely not😂😂 thanks for the comment and support. Is awesome to know my video reached all the way over there!

Personally I’d convert the Bridgeport back to a standard manual machine. That one looks to be in good shape. I’m not a fan of the old manual/CNC conversions. There is far better CNC machines available for little money. That machine was intended to be a manual machine, they built America with them old machines, I would keep it and the press, and just use them, but that’s just my opinion from a broke nobody, I have a good knee mill and a small lathe, you have a full on machine shop. I can understand why my opinion would hold little to no value. My scarcity mindset shines through I guess. You seem to be a very intelligent guy though. I’m sure you will find a good solution for both of them machines. The pattern you where looking at on the ways of the BP is the factory scraping, those were hand scraped ways and the fact that it’s still there and as visible as it is tells you it’s got little to no wear. But that’s hard to really determine from a quick glance on a KZread video. Judging by the rest of the machine it’s a relatively nice example of a BP you would find in the back corner of the machine shop. They generally fall in two categories, one is they used the piss out it up til they closed and the the other is they had a lot of issues with setting it up or understanding how to control it and gave up and pushed it back into the corner. Where you find them in the shop is usually a good indicator of what category it lies. Lol. Personally I’d love to see you pack that shop full of machines and equipment and use the heck out of all of it! Lol

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

What’s weird about this Bridgeport is that it actually is a CNC only machine and can’t be used manually or I would’ve just taken all of the CNC stuff off of it. So it Hass to be converted back to CNC to use it. Your opinion definitely matters on my channel! Thanks for the comment and the support!

This would be a great opportunity for people to win this equipment! Looking forward to the giveaway!! Hope I win

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support. I appreciate it.

I just came across your channel and signed up. Do a giveaway.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for the support I really appreciate it!

I loved my old Bridgeport boss5 Then again I loved my series 2 N/C it had a spindle wizard on it. It had balls all the way into next month.

@chauvinemmons

7 ай бұрын

Believe it or not there is no control that they can put on that old boss 5 that would be the same

@chauvinemmons

7 ай бұрын

To this day I can remember all kinds of tricks on that machine. Can you cut a square out with Big radius on the corners in 4 lines of code how about reading 8 channel punch tape or a hand punch to punch all 8 channels in a line you are nulling that line out feed rates things like were all two digits so if you stacked them right you could increase or decrease your feed rates by nulling out lines. Even had a car battery hooked mine to keep the memory alive no matter what o don't forget to write down the registers on the x and y when you set up a part the only way to find your way home when all hell breaks loose

All you did was put power straight to the motor... motor starter And overoads need to be changed I think you take the starter out see if you replace the overloads off the starter

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. Like I said I’m definitely not a electrician lol I appreciate any advice I can get

Id keep the mill and give the press away if I were to do a giveaway

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it!

Maquina necesaria importante psra evitar el maron y soplete por un rato en muchos trabajo pará trabajos de porche carrera Ferrari aventadoor lanzer y otros autos y camiones y camionetas en la mecánica.

If I remember on your control panel the green button on the left if you hold that in I believe the machine starts I'm trying to see the control panel for hearing your video and try to remember exactly how you start that up again but basically starts right up and it's happy there really isn't any zeroing

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

After the video, I actually opened the cabinet that holds the CNC components, and everything was stripped out of there. Lol.

oh pls give us a knee mill

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

If enough people comment and want a giveaway ill definitely do one. Thanks for the support, I really appreciate it!

I need to find me some deals like that just trying to find me a good milking machine and a lathe! Great videos though! How do you find these deals if you don’t mind me asking?

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

I’ve been buying and selling for a long time and I know a bunch of companies in the industry and I reach out to them or they reach out to me. Thanks for the support

@gorak9000

8 ай бұрын

Heh, on the west coast, even clapped out garbage bridgeports go for like $6k or $7k - you can find old VMC's cheaper (they just take a lot longer to get all fixed up than a knee mill does)!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

@@gorak9000 everything on the west coast is a lot more

if i could buy those tools for this price i will be crying (mostly because i dont have any mill right now when i need one -no money) in my country even on scrapyard they will ask you like 2000$ for crap mill and used ones start from like 1000$ for ones that need everything to be rebuild or half the parts are missing ps rebuild , sell , buy more , earn money and then when you have enough.... get even more for giveaway

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

Wow that’s crazy. What country are you in?

@ErtsenPlayGames

8 ай бұрын

@@prestigemanufacturing2611 Poland 😆 Its called TAX country EVERYTHING is tripple taxed or more

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

@@ErtsenPlayGames I’m sorry to hear it’s that way over there 😑 it’s not much better here though. Everything is crazy taxed too. I watch a guy on here called made in Poland he builds some awesome stuff and has a huge channel

You scare 😱 the heck out of me. With your comment, "get rid of the two buttons and convert it to a foot swich." Sir, you are out of your mind. The two buttons are there, so you don't lose your fingers." I think insanity has set in. I was watching a different Chanel and they where showing off their vertical log splitter. She had her hand where it shouldn't have been. She was lucky, just a bad broose. There is an old sentiment: stupid is, as stupid dose., and yes you should stay out of control boxes.😅 as you are dangerous... Ex Crew Chief, BSEE, BSCS, and am building an experimental aircraft. And I could use the mill.😊

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

😂 thanks for the support

@CrisHarrison

8 ай бұрын

I try. And I have been in many control boxes. Replacement contactor are avaliable. The old ones can be replaced with newer types.. Normally when I design a box all the controls run at 12v. You have to look at it this way. There big relays, controlling bigger loads with a small control voltage. Oh, BTW do n t change the switches.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

8 ай бұрын

@@CrisHarrison I’ll look into that for sure. I have seen newer contacts and thought about using one

@user-im7sj7gr2v

7 ай бұрын

No pedal. Seguridad va primero ✋ aplaztada no

@CrisHarrison

7 ай бұрын

@user-im7sj7gr2v thanks for the comment. I used Google to figure it out but it seems to say: "Safety Gbes (maybe goes?) First. Crushed no." Plaese give me a thumbs 👍 up if I got it right. ~~ Cris H.

Upgrade then give it away... !!

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support 🙏

I’ve always wanted to get into mill work, especially cnc, but the starting cost has been way too high even for the bargain brand stuff that has bad quality control. I’m sure someone will be super happy with it, just try to make sure it goes to someone who won’t just resell it and instead goes to someone who will love and cherish it like it should be. Don’t know how you would do that, a contract? A year check in video to see progress? No clue. But good luck to everyone if he decides to give it away. Fingers crossed I see the notification.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support. I’ll definitely keep that in mind if I do a giveaway

These deals are STEALS. Even if the machine didnt work theyre so heavy that you can probably make a profit from just sending it to a metal recycler/scrapper.

@prestigemanufacturing2611

6 ай бұрын

Definitely!

Push and hold green button. On left the one above it kills machine. That machine is no regular Bridgeport

Look at the wider ways.

I'm very interested in these machines it's a dream

@prestigemanufacturing2611

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support and comment. I really appreciate it.!