The Home Machinist!

I'm not worried about voltage; I have 380 3-phase at home. Older Euro industrial motors are 220/380, and newer ones are 380/660. It's highly unlikely to find anything that won't work on 380 [or 415 UK voltage, which is functionally the same]. changing / stepping down control voltage will not be a pr...

Auto translate for paper documents uses OCR, optical character recognition; my brother was working on that for a startup in 1982 or thereabouts. So it's not new. I have some home software [came with a scanner] and there are online services that are probably better, you upload images. It's still quit...

Pete, thanks for all that writing! It's very educational for me. I've been following some other auctions on ebay.de, and all the bidding took place in the last few hours. There are buyers, and it could be that some of them went and checked the machine for themselves, which is impossible for me. So I...

Looks essentially the same to me, additives could be different.
Basically, it's mineral base hydraulic oil. I'm sure there will be no trouble from mixing them.
Are you having fun yet? making any chips?

Thanks guys; I'm still waiting for more pictures, but further perusing on ebay.de reveals more big milling machines without any bids, except one that's up to 350 euros. Scrap price. I even found another machine of the same model, but the pictures don't show the extra attachments so I'm still hot on ...

At home I have an agriculture tractor with pallet fork that can lift it. I presume the moving crew will have a pallet wagon; but it might be tough getting the machine onto it. I will warn them about it being top heavy if things go that far. I've asked the seller to provide pictures of the approach, ...

Thanks Russ; I can't go there myself. Aside from being away from home for 6 days, the cost would be crazy, and I have no vehicle that can even tow a trailer that could carry it. Tolls + fuel would be $400-$500 for my little car, twice that for a truck that could carry the machine. If I had one. Howe...

Thanks for taking the time; I have 380v 3-phase 50Hz at my place, and I can build a shed to house it. The problem is moving it; 1,000 miles is not difficult, but getting it onto the transport is difficult. I wrote to the seller [in native German] to ask about the loading situation; is the approach f...

Thanks for that.
It reads like it's a hell of a machine, or it was when it was made.
I haven't had luck finding transport.

In Portugal where I live, privately owned machines are rare, so are decent prices. The problem with dealers is that they always strip off all the tooling. So hunting around the internet, I found this; https://www.ebay.de/itm/Universal-Werkzeugfrasmaschine-UMF-Ruhla-VEB-Duplex-58/154139715168?hash=it...

Way oil is made to lubricate ultra low speed sliding elements. It doesn't need to handle high speed agitation like occurs in a rotating bearing. I'm not sure what the properties of way oil are; but there must be some trade off for the extra slickness. It's not magic super oil, it's just oil formulat...

I think the URL is mymachineshop.net