Thanks Denny, It is a cool machine, I've run several of varying large and larger sizes and from then on wished I could have one in my shop. Had no idea until I stumbled onto this little guy that they even came small enough to fit in my shop, sure didn't take long to make the decision to buy it once I'd found it. At the shipyard in Newport News the largest I ran (although briefly and trained on it) was a G&L with CNC retrofit or update, it had no table other than the floor, the whole column traveled left and right almost 30' I think and head went up 12 or 16', the only reach it had was the spindle travel, which was also significant. There were some other HBM's in the same room that were simply humongous in comparison, really really big. I wish they would have allowed me to take pictures, it's hard to describe the scale of stuff and all the neat machines in that shop. The two machines I really enjoyed operating were about one size larger than the one I have, also G&L and almost as old, all manual.
