We bought this used Bridgeport J-head mill for $1,800, then spent another $350 having it moved to our shop, $300 more to wire it, and then countless more dollars were spent on end mills, fly cutters, ...
There are times in a man’s life when he needs to drill a square hole through an 8mm thick piece of steel. If that man doesn’t have one or two thousand dollars to spend on commercial tooling to do this ...