Bridgeport mill, table removed. Advice please .

[sandman2234]

I have a friend who owns a machine shop. He started it in his garage, years ago. About the same time, I started collecting firearms. Now he has started collecting firearms, and I have started collecting machine tools.
Costs of the needed items was compared.
Bridgeport equals rifle
vise equals scope
rotary table.... pistol
endmills.... reloading dies
metal stock...bullets
No matter what the hobby, it seems the costs are just a little bit more than you
can afford, and a lot more than you can justify... especially to your spouse...

[doug925]

Sandman...would the rifle in the bridgeport=rifle comparision be a handmade McMillan bmg50[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif"%20alt="[/img], or a Barret bmg50[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif"%20alt="[/img]?????? I kow I would love to own one but it is cost prohibitive for most of us mere mortals. I think I will have to stay with machine tools. lol lol [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif"%20alt="[/img]

[DFWKen]

Two of my passions are classic competition match airguns and my home shop including metalworking, woodworking, etc. Your analogy is a good one except that I'm on both sides of it. (chuckle)

[sandman2234]

No McMillan, but I did purchase the Gunmetal Design's .50 a few years ago...
How about a RugerAC-556 in S/S with a screw on silencer? That ought to more than pay for the milling machne...Toss in a Ruger folding stock, and I bet I could get a rotary table to boot, or at least a vise. Maybe even talk my way into a DRO...
Guns...
cars
tools.
Wife will have a nice garage sale when I am gone.


Anybody looking for a '66 corvette?