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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …