Grizzly G0619 6" x 21" Mill / Drill Product Description:
Product Description
Upgrade to this mill/drill and have all of the great features shown on G0463 and add a tilting head, a multifunction digital scale on the quill, a quick reversing tapping feature, push button speed control and digital speed display. With this machine you can quickly tap one hole or dozens of holes! Press the button, start the tap and when the thread is completed, push another button and the spindle quickly reverses, withdrawing the tap from the hole. And there won't be any question about proper spindle speed! Run the RPM up or down to best suit your tooling/material and be confident that you'll have fewer worn or broken tools. Specifications: • Motor: 1 HP, 110V, single-phase, brushless DC • Spindle taper: R-8 • Spindle travel: 2-3/4" • Swing: 18" • Max. distance spindle to table: 14-3/4" • Collars calibrated: 0.001" • T-Slots: 3 @ 1-11/16" centers, 7/16" wide • Table size: 6-1/4" x 21-5/8" • Table travel (longitudinal): 15-7/8" • Table travel (cross): 5-3/4" • Headstock travel: 14-7/8" • Drilling capacity: 1" • Quill diameter: 2.347" • Variable speed: 100-1750 RPM • Approximate shipping weight: 418 lbs.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Super Mill
By True Vision
This is a really terrific little mill/drill. As of June, 2010, this seems to be the absolute best that you can buy that will plug into a standard 110V circuit, and three people can move it around (~330lb). This mill is sold by a number of different companies, under different model numbers. Shop Fox M1111, Grizzly G0619, and half-a-dozen others. Some of them are cheaper but Grizzly and Shop Fox likely have better quality control. It's manufactured in China by Sieg and is designated generically as the Sieg SX3 (super-X3 mill). Construction seems to be extremely solid. The table has ~6" of cross-travel and ~16" of longitudinal travel. Backlash can be adjusted down to a few thousandths and can be taken out manually to the order of one-thousandth or maybe slightly better. It has a 1HP motor that only draws 12amps at 110V. The head is on dovetail vertical ways so that tool changes (raise and lower) don't lose position. There is a vertical digital readout that is really nice and very useful. The mill can be zeroed on top of the piece and then the vertical motion is very accurate with a nice fine-feed in addition to the coarse spindle motion. Vertical travel of the head is 14", so lots of room to work under it. The mill is driven by a brushless DC motor and speed is digitally controllable from 100 to 1800 RPM (it's listed as 1750 max but will actually go to 1800). The DC motor is 220V and is driven off an inverter from the 110V input. If you see it listed as 220V, that's the DC secondary--the primary power input is 110V. The spindle is driven by a cogged belt drive from the DC motor, so extremely reliable, and quiet! This is absolutely as good as it gets for this amount of money. A tremendous amount of work can be done with this mill just like it sits, and DRO digital-read-out kits are available if you want more accuracy (glass scales on all axes--extremely accurate but maybe $700 for a kit and you have to be willing to drill and tap the cast iron to install the glass-scales). We bought a Grizzly G5944 stand to set the mill on (it's not listed as being for the G0619 mill, but it works just fine). We also put the G5944 stand on a JET 708119 JMB-UMB-HD Universal Mobile Base. The whole set up works really well and is easy to roll around the shop (push up against the wall out of the way when not in use). Finally we bought a Palmgren rotating vise (Palmgren 18602 610B Milling Vise with Swivel Base 6.0 Inch) to bolt on the mill table as a clamping solution. This works really well for what we're doing, but depending on what you're cutting, you may want a clamping kit (Grizzly sells them) for the table instead. The mill comes with a 5/8" Jacobs chuck, which will take drills or mills up to 5/8" (turned down drills are available up to way more than 1" that will fit this chuck). It's compatible with R8 collets, so for more precise milling (or bigger end mills) it's easy to buy a collet kit and replace the Jacobs chuck with collets. This is just an extremely nice and highly capable little mill. The next step up is a gear head mill that weighs two or three times as much, is very noisy, and requires 220V electrical supply (not a huge deal but if you're moving the mill around you'll need to call an electrician for each new location). Recommended!! (Last thought--comes with an excellent manual).
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Good machine, needs a light
By Greg A. Miller
I bought the G0619 direct from Grizzly but the price is the same. I chose this model because I didn't want to mess with a 2 ton machine in my garage but I wanted the most functionality of what was offered in the drill/mills. Grizzly has a new model out G0704 with bigger table. That tool has gear drive so is presumably noisey, weighs a lot less and the z axis handwheel is at shoulder level. The G0619 showed up by freight with a smashed up pallet and crate. The crates are junk and I would expect it to be destroyed since it is made from 3/8" balsa wood. Mill was not damaged (externally)and was coverd with the nice red packing goo. I rented an engine hoist to lift on my bench with no problems. After cleaning off the red goo and performing the spindle break in, I had trouble with the motor faulting out with ERR message on display. Took a while to reach the right person at Grizzly (first customer service, then mechanical dept, then electrical department with 2 days in between each department) but they were responsive and shipped the entire electrical guts of the machine as replacement. Turned out the motor control board was bad and now I have spares for everything else. After resolving the initial issue with the machine, I am quite happy with the purchase. The machine operates well and has enough power to mow through aluminum and steel parts. So far I have not run into a project where I needed a larger machine with a larger table. I removed the chip guard so it isn't in the way. I added a standard 110V flex light to the mill in order to see the parts being work on. Mounted the light on the motor cooling cage behind the spindle and wired it up to the main control board of the tool. It should come with a light! 4" inch vise is largest anyone should use with this mill otherwise takes up too much room on the table. T-nut size for this mill is 7/16". The 1/2" T-nuts that come with a 3/8" clamping kit are too big.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.NICE TOOL!
By Danno
Purchased my G0619 from Grizzly, and came in OK condition, but once set up, the mill was DOA.After providing my own warranty service labor, it turned out to be a crap motor on the mill.Grizzly replaced it quickly.Once this was repaired, the mill ran good! I purchased a Chinese Keyless chuck for the Mill, to ease my work. The Chinese chuck was complete GARBAGE. I threw it away, and purchased an Albrecht 1/2 Chuck.Life is good with zero runout! The Albrecht has an integral R-8 shank to keep runout low.I purchased my Machine Stand from Rockler. 24x24 kit w/Casters. Works great, and the Mill's front hand wheel, clears the stand easily. Also purchased (2) low cost mag DRO units for X/Y planes. The mill is capable of some serious work being done, and is GREAT for smaller projects.I added two LED flex lights to illuminate from both sides. It works well, and battery consumption is acceptable. (I could NOT justify what the folks who supply machine lamps were asking for quartz lamps)(They are also too hot in use I think)Overall, it's a great little mill to do accurate work on.Eventually, it will go CNC, which is a nice attribute of this machine, that it CAN be converted!If you're looking for a decent capable Mill of moderate size...This Mill does it VERY WELL !
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