{"id":2589,"date":"2009-01-21T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2009-01-21T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T20:15:06","slug":"millrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2589","title":{"rendered":"MillRite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Googling Pays<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think I have finally found the answer to the drill press\/milling machine conundrum: the Powermatic (Burke) Millrite. This is  a full-blown milling machine that is small enough to put in a garage, yet big enough to be hard to outgrow. If you have more room than you need for a drill press, but not enough for a Bridgeport, this is your machine. And another bonus: because these machines were not generally used for production work, they tend to have relatively few hours on them.<\/p>\n<p>The mill\/drills I was looking at have a lot to recommend them, but as good as they are, they are Chiwanese hobby machines, and they are limited. And they cost as much or more than a used Millrite. And they will not hold their value the way a used American mill will. Millrites have a relatively short quill travel, which is bad, but I guess you can&#8217;t have everything.<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, a Millrite is available here in Miami. But they are not selling it cheap. It would cost as much as a new mill\/drill. I&#8217;ve read about people buying them for $400, but I don&#8217;t know what the going rate is. Ebay indicates about two grand.<\/p>\n<p>I got a quote on the machine. Now I have to sit here and talk myself out of going to look at it. As if I would know what to look for when checking out an old mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Googling Pays I think I have finally found the answer to the drill press\/milling machine conundrum: the Powermatic (Burke) Millrite. This is a full-blown milling machine that is small enough to put in a garage, yet big enough to be hard to outgrow. If you have more room than you need for a drill press, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}