I should add -- that my Mill/Drill is a really nice drill press - very accurate - very stable - easy to maneuver parts precisely once you're set up...
As a Milling machine - it's next to useless - not enough power to do any "hogging off" -- and the belt slips if you make to large of a cut (and we're talking TINY cuts here) and it chatters on steel - the head is on a clamp set up on a round stock - and there's no way you're going to hold that head still..
So on aluminum it works pretty well - and if I'm just modifying a part - it's fine... But to call it a mill - is only a dictionary version of what a mill is... <grin>
It's a 2 hp - single phase - 220V machine... and that it is a total ho hum...
What we were saying about your budget -- is that, for a decent vise - or v blocks - or cutters - or any additional collets etc - you're going to blow your budget just on that minimal stuff.
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