There is a Milltronics Partner 4 mill with a Centurion V Control, on Crown Assets right now, in Cold Lake.
Dunno what it will sell for, I'm not going to bid, as much as I would like to have it, as I have other plans taking up my life for the next while.
I am pretty familiar with this particular machine. I ran it, and maintained it for several years while in the Machine Shop in Cold Lake.
I would hope it is getting replaced with something newer, but given some of the stuff that I have seen get sold off, there, of late, I suspect it boils down to a dumbing down of the capability instead.
In any case, I already have the twin to this mill, bought by the Military on the same order, and likely do not need two. As much as I would like to have it for spares.
If anyone here is going to bid on it, I will offer to tell you what I do know about it. It has had it's own idiosyncrasies that regularly enough cropped up, and like as not that is why it s on the block, vs. someone actually getting off their ass and fixing it.
It has long enough been thought to be "someone else's" job, but that was a thought that was planted back before they downsized that someone else out of the CF org charts. The feeling that it is not the user's responsibility to actually fix it runs deep, though, and it has cost the CF a lot of capability over the years. A former co-worker there told me that it took a few months of things piling up on the broken list, for them to actually understand just how much I was doing to keep the place rolling along. Just in doing the minor daily maintenance that everyone thought was supposed to be one by "someone else". It was quite complimentary I thought, though a bit sad too. <shrug> Ya can tell 'em, but yer not allowed to hit 'em with sticks any more to make them listen.
Anyways, anyone wants to know what I know, feel free to contact me here in the post or by PM.
Cheers
Trev
Dunno what it will sell for, I'm not going to bid, as much as I would like to have it, as I have other plans taking up my life for the next while.
I am pretty familiar with this particular machine. I ran it, and maintained it for several years while in the Machine Shop in Cold Lake.
I would hope it is getting replaced with something newer, but given some of the stuff that I have seen get sold off, there, of late, I suspect it boils down to a dumbing down of the capability instead.
In any case, I already have the twin to this mill, bought by the Military on the same order, and likely do not need two. As much as I would like to have it for spares.
If anyone here is going to bid on it, I will offer to tell you what I do know about it. It has had it's own idiosyncrasies that regularly enough cropped up, and like as not that is why it s on the block, vs. someone actually getting off their ass and fixing it.
It has long enough been thought to be "someone else's" job, but that was a thought that was planted back before they downsized that someone else out of the CF org charts. The feeling that it is not the user's responsibility to actually fix it runs deep, though, and it has cost the CF a lot of capability over the years. A former co-worker there told me that it took a few months of things piling up on the broken list, for them to actually understand just how much I was doing to keep the place rolling along. Just in doing the minor daily maintenance that everyone thought was supposed to be one by "someone else". It was quite complimentary I thought, though a bit sad too. <shrug> Ya can tell 'em, but yer not allowed to hit 'em with sticks any more to make them listen.
Anyways, anyone wants to know what I know, feel free to contact me here in the post or by PM.
Cheers
Trev
