Re: Re: Re: Bridgeport (Digest Number 1471)
Posted by
Roland Friestad
on 2001-07-06 14:23:33 UTC
Jon,
I would take issue with that statement - It's sort of like stating that the
Wright Brothers first airplane was appalling junk because a 747 is so much
better, or to hit closer to home that the ENIAC was appalling junk because
the Pentium is so much better - Many hundreds or even thousands of machine
shops, including mine, made a good living using those early Bridgeports
which were the first really affordable CNC machines that a small shop could
afford -
Roland Friestad
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I would take issue with that statement - It's sort of like stating that the
Wright Brothers first airplane was appalling junk because a 747 is so much
better, or to hit closer to home that the ENIAC was appalling junk because
the Pentium is so much better - Many hundreds or even thousands of machine
shops, including mine, made a good living using those early Bridgeports
which were the first really affordable CNC machines that a small shop could
afford -
Roland Friestad
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>Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 18:04:58 +0000
> From: Jon Elson <elson@...>
>Subject: Re: Re: Bridgeport
>
>BOSS is the name Bridgeport applied to a particular line of their
>own machines made expressly for CNC. The controls were apalling
>junk, and so the machines are often found in nearly unused
>condition, as they rarely worked. The earlier ones had stepper
>drive, the lates 2 models had servo drive very similar to their
>current EZ-trak models. The I stands for Series I, roughly the
>same size as the standard manual bridgeport (1J and 2J head
>models). The II is for Series II machines, about 50% larger than the
>series I, with bigger heads, too.
>