OK, after several weeks of looking and talking, I found a mill in Virginia Beach, about 100 miles south of me. Brought it home today. It's dated 1981 but was hardly used. It's a Bridgeport Taiwanese clone. 2hp, 3ph. No tooling, only a vise. Has X and Y DRO, X and Z axis power feed, oiler, and a mister. No discernable wear on the x or y axis as movement of the bed does not reveal a change in effort as they are transversed from end to end of travel. I wish I had been able to get some tooling, but the owner was shutting down his shop (he had four mills) and took the best mill and all the tooling home with him.
The seller loaded it on my flatbed trailer with his forklift, I blocked the base and I strapped it down, drove it home and rented a skid steer with pallet forks at home to unload it.
A 4x4 under the top turret spanning the forks balances the mill perfectly. Now just need to get it in final position in the shop and wire it up with a variable frequency controller.
Ordered some R8 tooling to get started. Will take me a week or more to get it set up and tuned/trammed in.
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