I had the opportunity to visit Industrial Hobbies last week. I had pre-ordered an IH mill back in January, the mill is here so I drove out to CT (over 2 hours) to make arrangements to pick up the mill or set up delivery if I thought it would be too large for me to handle. I met the new owner Gene and his son Tommy (very nice people). I ended up spending allmost four hours at the shop. Gene was nice enough to take the time to show me the Mills, Tooling, Fixtures, Cnc kits, Dro's, just about anything I could think of. Before I left Gene set up some Aluminium plate on one of the Cnc mills and let me do some conversational machining. I have to say I was very impressed with the smoothness and noise level of the mill or should I say lack of noise or vibration. Theres a lot of Iron in that Mill. How impressed was I? Well I went there to make arrangements to pick up the mill and ended up leaving it there for a Turnkey Cnc Conversion.
Thanks to Gene and Tommy for an informative and enjoyable day.
JP