Bridgeport Milling Machine Restoration
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Finally got myself a mill! A very nice and deck out Bridgeport too! But it needs some love... Watch how I take this apart for some much needed maintenance.
This really is a dream machine to me. 42inch table, 2hp variable speed motor, one-shot lube for all ways and leadscrews, power feed on both x and y and digital read out on all axis. Plus some nice rubber ways covers that judging by the lack of chips in the knee worked very well. And the ways are chrome plated too! This bridgeport has it all.
The general condition, exept some rust and dirt is also good. Only a few scratches and a couple broken knobs. The only real wear I found is on the x leadscerew: right in the center the threads are worn and bit thinner so I either have a bit more backlash in the center or very stiff movement at the ends. Everything else works well so I can't complain!
This work took around one month. I never played with such heavy machinery, it has been a great challenge!
And yes, the head was pretty much just cleaned. I replaced the quill spring off camera and ordered a new wheel for the slow quill feed or auto feed mechanism because it was missing.
Bearing sound fine, nothing is broken, maybe I'll give it a deeper clean later but for now I'm just too thrilled to actually use the mill!
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0:00 Bridgeport Milling Machine Disassembly
0:42 Ways Covers
1:07 DRO
1:53 X-Axis and Table
3:15 Y-Axis and Saddle
4:34 Z-Axis and Knee
5:42 Cleaning Base
6:27 Fixing Z-Axis and Knee
10:06 Saddle and Cross Screw Assembly
12:19 Lubrication
12:51 Table
14:16 X-Axis and Power Feed
16:47 Y-Axis and Power Feed
18:04 DRO Glass Scales
19:40 Ways Covers
21:12 Cleaning Head
21:29 Test
23:17 First Chips!
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I’m dieing inside watching you run a belt grinder and a angle grinder on such a precise machine.......yikkkes
I was watching that too. At first i thought he was just cleaninng the rails further out then i watched him put that grinder against the fish scales on the ways and I cringed so hard
Man, I’m so jealous! I’ve wanted a Bridgeport for so long! That thing is incredible.
I know the feeling! I'm sure you'll find one as well. Good luck!
Excelente trabajo.
I do and I don’t. It’s a big machine, takes up a lot of room and requires 3 phase power. So I haven’t seriously looked for one because I’m not sure I really want it in my shop. I do have a mini mill that works fine for anything knife/paper weight sized. The bridgeport would be great for engine work like boring cylinders or decking heads which are going to be too big for the mini mill.
Just make one.
@@HandToolRescue I need a bridgeport to be able to make a bridgeport haha
I once restored a Bridgeport that had spent a couple years sitting silently with "cool-tool" residue caked all over it, inside and out! Takes a lot of determination and patience to do these restorations
Looks more like a Bridgebort. -Hand Tool Rescue
You got yourself a Bridgeport. Good for you. Hope we'll see plenty of new content of you using this classic mill.
For sure!
Great job, I used to work a Bridgeport for 50 hours a week, every week many years ago. Yours was in better condition when you started than the one I used. It looks really clean, reasonably recently scraped ways and the DRO is a great addition.
agreed, this machine was basically just dirty but in almost perfect working condition.
Great work brother! Your machine restoration and tool build videos are my favorites. That Bridgeport milling machine is a Grail tool for most in the hobby maker world, and you have not only found one, but you have brought an old soldier back into service! It'll serve faithfully for many years to come. Can't wait to see what you do with it in the future! Be well.
Wow, to call this project ambitious would be a gross understatement. Bravo for taking the time to clean and polish so many parts! I’m sure that this mill will give you excellent service for many years to come. Again, bravo!
Can't believe that machine cleaned up so nicely!
Superb addition to the shop and can't wait to see what you're going to make using it.
This may be one of my favorite videos from you. Everything about this restoration was on-point!
I love the Bridgeport especially the BR2J2 like this. All the knobs are in the right places and you only need one spanner! Great to see this grubby example brought back to life: well done!
Looks like one of the anvils that came from that Italian monastery that has over a hundred of them😊
Beautiful job restoring a workhorse of a machine! Thank you for saving it from the scrap heap, BBP.
What's not to love about that? A beautiful restoration of a very deserving machine. Thanks for sharing your expertise and experience.
Amazing! I love this restoration videos. Even I didn’t know about the existence of this “manual CNC”. Great job! Thanks for sharing!
I have like the first bridgeport ever made. This one is such a beauty, all the bells and whistles. Great job
I'm impressed you did that in less
than a half hour, Mr B.
I love watching your restoration videos, and this one was exceptional! Thank you, sir! Great as always
Bridgeports are a thing of beauty!really liked you did those repairs with brazing-a personal favorite!
This was a lucky buy, all ways are scraped recently, everything works just fine. You neednt do anything but cleaning. Brazed parts are questionable.
Nice piece of machinery you got there. Can't wait to see you use it for your projects.
You do a great job of restoring and making things.
You made it look so easy, but it shows with a little elbow grease you can revive the beauty of such a piece... Great Video. Thanks for Sharing
Congratulations on a fantastic machine :D Looking forward to see you using this in your upcomming videos. Cheers and have a nice weekend.
Your video editing technique is almost as impressive as your restoration skills. A joy to watch.
I really like the way you speed things up. You put out a lot of information in a very short time. Awesome video.
Great job. Congratulations on your new Bridgeport.
As always another great job. Cannot wait to see what you are able to make with that. Look forward to your next video.
Probably your most serious hardware in your workshop yet! Nice clenaup, it was in a pretty okay shape all things considered, doesn't look like it was used that much.
Bravo! Much nicer than the one I have to use. I was actually excited to see your first cut! I always like seeing the tools you've restored being used, I'm sure this one will be in many upcoming videos.
Thanks!! For sure!
Fantastic job. You are truly fortunate to have one of these machines. I served my engineering apprenticeship on one of these, so I have a soft spot for them. Keep up the food work.
Nicely done! Thanks for not adding music to your video. I like adding my own while still being able to hear what you're doing.
I'm not gonna lie.......for the vast majority of this video I had no idea WTF you were doing but it was incredibly satisfying LOL. Good job breathing new life into an old machine.
Great job cleaning it up and repairing it! You hit the jackpot with that "used" Bridgeport... Other than a few broken parts and some wear, the thing is pretty cherry. Hardly any damage to the table, and the ways appear to be in really good shape! Hope to get one someday and I equally hope I can find one in that good a shape... Enjoy your new machine, any home machinist would love to have one, especially in that good a condition.
Such a great puzzle !! A pleasure to watch your work 👍
That was one AMBITIOUS project!! Nice job, well done. I wish I had the engineering knowledge to tackle such a project.
You've done a lovely job on that beautiful machine! back to life without robbing it of its original character and the story all of its little marks and imperfections tell. I'm sometimes saddened when I watch people strip them back to the casting, fill and repaint. Great job man - I've watched the entire video 3 times already - Thanks!
Very sympathetic restoration. I guess I would call it an oily rag and bushings restore. That is not to diminish the work you put in. The transformation in looks and probably workings too is fantastic.
Most satisfying video! To see a beautiful machine brought back to life this way! Well done sir!!
Amazing machine! You made a great job, keep going!
Wow how much perfection in the reform on the other hand the good thing is that we know the machine completely congratulations.
A bonnie, a beauty and a joy forever. Congrats.
That is impressive! I love that we can essentially manufacture our own parts now. If you told my father 20 years ago we would reach a point in technology that you could 3D fabricate and laser cut your own parts in your home... he would have bricked. Yeah, they can be expensive but the return is what makes them an investment. Kudos to you on another job well done!
Excellent work as always, dude! You're going to have a lot of fun with that! Can't wait to see it used in a project! 🍻🤘💜
Lovely machine. The ways looks like they were rescraped and then the machine sat idle and collected dust and rust. It's nice to see it make chips.
The scraping on the ways is in remarkably good condition. Doesn’t look like this machine had too hard of a life!
Looks brand new!
🤣 It isn't an geometrical scraping... These are only oil pokets cause the original scraping was fully grinded away
@@felixe.8402 the scraping is clearly visible as were the oil channels. Further, If you don’t know what you’re talking about don’t comment. “geometrical scraping”?, what are you talking about? Scraping isn’t “geometrical”.
What do you mean? Z-axis needs rescraping. The only perfect restorations of these machines I've seen are on CaLem's channel
@@al1sa920 what do you mean? The z axis looks more than adequate. You realize the top of the dovetail isn’t the bearing surface right? I never said anything about a “perfect restoration”. If you’ve ever seen a well used Bridgeport the ways all wear through the scraping. I don’t care about some OCD UA-cam channels “perfect restoration”. This is a great find, and perfect candidate for a light restoration.
That's a beautiful piece of machinery!!
That's a lovely mill and it's nice to see it so well restored. But what we really need is more corgi footage. :)
I love this video, I’ve watched it a couple times now. You do a beautiful job and it’s amazing to think of all the cool things that machine has been apart of making in its past
Great resturation. Nice to see this kind of machinery been brought to life and been of good purpose. 👌👌
WOW! Game changer! You just levelled up sir 🤘🏻
Terrific job, brought it back to life.
Absolutely fantastic! Well done
What an undertaking! Nice work man.
Wow🤤 What a awesome restoration and congrats to finding this gem. You have a mill for ur childrens childrens children and some.
Congrats on getting a beautiful machine.
I would’ve gotten through the disassembly and then said oooh nooo I fudged up. I’m glad guys like you can get things back together right on these bigger pieces. Made that thing look 20 years younger!
Is not like a restoring, it is more like clean and oil the Bridgeport
Very beautiful video
You have inspired me to do the same. Now to go find a bridge port in that good condition.
Exceptional. Brilliant work!
Great refresher on the machine,looks like a nice addition to your shop😎😎😎👍👍👍
Lot of work, beautiful job very happy for you
Great job! I wish I was lucky enough to come across a great deal and be able to do this some day.
Love your videos man, you put so much effort into creating really amazing footage and the pacing of the work is really engaging.
...looks good, it should get 'er done, stay safe and have a great weekend...
Fantastic job. Congratulations, again.
That's great work. And probanly the best video editing I've ever seen on a restoration. A pleasure to watch. Thanks.
Learned/tested for many basic/complex milling projects/processes using one of those as part of a CNC Operator/Machinist apprenticeship.
Also enjoyed learning/testing using the various chuck-sized/H.power older lathes as well. So much freakin' cooler than just programming a modern CNC machine and hitting the go button. Lol
Chapeau! That was some excellent work.
I I bought a used bridgeport, I'm loving it ,i loved your vídeo too
Amazing project
Nice job, machine looks to be a great mechanical shape too!
At least on camera, you tear into those machines and remember how to put them back together no problem. I'd have "spare parts" everywhere! Great work. I love watching you give these old machines new life. It's fun when you use them in future videos and I can say, "Oh! I remember when he restored that one!"
I enjoy your restoration videos. You should make them more often.
Excellent work 👍
Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing
Congratulations for your new big toy, nice projects are coming.
Awesome machine! Again great work 💪
All hand scrape appears very well ,, 👍🏻,,thanks for sharing
Excellent.
You've done a great job.
A real mechanic-resuscitator. Class!
I was waiting for you to crack in to that J-Head....that's where the real fun begins! Good work. Clean machine overall. You found a gem. Mine came from a food processing factory and it appeared they used it as a drill-press and washed it down with a waterhose. Nothing moved, nothing worked. Got it for $280. Completely restored with the additions of power feed on every axis, 4-axis magnetic DRO, and power drawbar. Could probably sell it for $5-7K now.
Not much to restore on this beauty. It still was in great shape. Nice job!
man who loves his job. I have great respect for you
That was awesome my son and I enjoyed this video greatly
First impression was that machine was spent. But the scraping on the ways is incredible. Other than the broken gib it ended up being pristine. What a charmed find!
this was amazing! You are an artist.
Amazing job, it's a beautiful machine !!
What a treasure! I think a machine with those options in that good of condition for it's age in the Us would be considered a real find. You'll wonder how you survived without it.
All it needs is dual climate control to be the most highly optioned Bridgeport I think I've ever seen.
Wow! Beautiful! Can't believe how brave you are ripping this thing down. Awesome job.... Hope the person who sold it to you gets to see this. Great video!
gorgeous milling machine
Awesome work
That mill was in great condition under the rust and dirt
Way to go! big improvement!
What a machine! You have a bridgeport now, I'll closely watch your channel now :)
this had to of took a month to do. I was lost 6 minutes in when it came to what goes where.
These guys that work on these machines are legit
This machine is prob older then most of us and will be of use long past us as well.
Bridgeport made a hell of a machine
Damn, do I love a good restoration video. Great job. 👍
Nice machine and great work restoring it
Great job bro 👏
Nice job! Saving this video for future reference
Beautiful machine!!
Yes, the best restoration teacher too🙏👍
It's a shame a hack like this guy did his best to ruin it, wire wheel on the table is butchery, let alone the parts he broke and brazed back together.