Chris,
Yeah, nothing like having to buy $10,000 worth of transformers to ruin a project eh? If you're interested you should head over to diyaudio.com if you haven't already, lots of tube talk over there.
Thanks for the reply. I have a drill press right now that should be sufficient for the time being, it's not specifically for metalworking but i've used it to drill through heatsinks about an 1" thick without problems so that should work for now. Good call on the bandsaw aswell, that's a decent price for that one too! That's part of the reason I never looked at them, i'd assumed they'd cost a bloody fortune but that's pretty reasonable. I can grab both the mill and that and still come in on budget, which is always a good thing
Still a ways off from buying anything, i'm going to check a few of the places around town see if I can grab a deal, and if not grizzly it is. Seems like a decent mill to get started with for my purposes.
If i'm looking around at older mills is there anything I should look for? or avoid? I'm slowly but surely getting educated with all this, but i'm still a long ways off from understanding everything, so any help or direction is most welcome
Thanks for the replies so far guys!
Tristan