USED MISC. MACHINE TOOLS

Sometimes Used Misc. Machine Tools Might Also Include Unique Ones!

You might ask, "What all could possibly be in this catch-all group that I would ever be interested in anyway?" Whoa, remember we are discussing a wide-open book here, so literally anything goes. Over the years, we have learned that sometimes you have to leave a certain definition of a machinery group a little bit loose, just in case you get some real unusual machinery. Seriously, some pieces of equipment end up in here if for no other reason other than they were configured to do a very narrow task function. The inventory listed here will fluctuate over time, as is the case with every other type of machinery we gain access to. You name it, we probably had one here at one time or other. We've taken all sorts of hand-held metalworking tools in on trade here, including the anvils mentioned above. You never know what people are looking for, so we have taken in a few quirky items on trade in the past, just because we know someone somewhere will eventually have a need for them.

If Unusual Used Miscellaneous Machine Tools Piques Your Interest, You’re in the Right Place!

Bud's Machine Tools has been in the "assorted machine tools for sale" business so long, we don’t think there has been much that has “come down the pike” in the last many years that we haven’t had at least one of. (Of course, the instant you say that, something comes along that blows up that whole theory about having seen it all!)

• We have had, on occasion, an integrated electric motor and pump combination machine. Just pick up this piece and take it wherever it needs to go and get 2,600 P.S.I. at 9 gallons a minute.
• Here’s an unlikely candidate — how about a metal disintegrator? You never know when you will need to blow out a broken tap or bolt.
• How about a pantograph machine? You never know when a use for an old-school machine tool like this one may just pop up.

Other kinds of equipment featured here include some unusual hand tools that just couldn’t find a home anywhere else in our line-up. Large accessories for milling machines, grinders, boring mills, tool holders and even warehouse equipment have dwelt in this spot. What is the moral of this story? That you need to check back here often because you just don’t know what you might miss unless you look.

Finished? We Haven't Even Begun!

Adding the ability to finish your own metal parts can greatly improve your production line capabilities. Finishing your own parts is an ideal way to manufacture parts that can go directly to your customers without having to send them out for another processing step. Used finishing equipment is a great way to add to your business without breaking your budget. Having sand blasting, honing and deburring capabilities in-house can speed the process of moving parts through your shop as they are cut and shaped. Additionally, access to your own parts washer for effective degreasing on-site and in your time-frame will improve your control of your production line. A hydraulic planer can expand your in-house finishing capabilities in situations where shaping the parts is not as effective a process. Developing your own part finishing steps and adding them to your production capabilities can improve your delivery time, make it easier to schedule and route parts through your shop, and generate more value for your customers.

"Is Something Funny? What Are You Lapping About?"

It doesn’t matter if you have a lapper or a finisher or a deburrer or a hone or a polishing machine, they all have one basic goal, to improve the surface of a piece part. Somewhere along the evolutionary path of the world's metalworking industry, somebody realized a need. They said to their collective selves, "We need a surface finish standard so we all know what we are getting when we buy a machined part." This was a bold endeavor, as the implementation was attempted, and — after a long acceptance period — began to take shape in the latter 1870s to mid-1880s. Finally, the world had their standard. A machinist in Germany could now produce a machine part for a customer in France and know how the buyer would like their finish done. The early standard was crude at best, but was far and away a better system than what they had before — which was nothing. As in all things metalworking, the standard kept up with the times and was continually updated to reflect the knowledge necessary for that era. The three main parameters that are typically measured in the shop inspection room are: surface roughness, waviness, and flatness. The inspector will have the necessary equipment to measure one or more of these parameters to ensure that surface of the part exactly matches the part specified in the blue print. Today the metalworking industry uses two different standards to express a required surface finish. Both the Ra standard and the RMS standard, while being calculated very differently, will provide a measurement that can then be calculated or checked on the shop floor.

So How Do You Get an RMS or Ra Standard on Your Part? Buy Used Finishing Machines!

Do you use a machine polisher, or a bead blasting system? Or maybe a honing machine or a large belt sander? Where does one go to access the knowledge base of 50 years of providing both new and used finishing machines? You know that’s a loaded question, right? Of course, you go to Bud's Machine Tools in Salt Lake City, because you know the people there will help you in any way they can. Not only will we share our considerable knowledge base, we have the selection in stock to fill almost any need for a used finishing machine. Please refer to the chart located on this page that is designed to help differentiate between the three most often used surface condition measurements. They are, in no particular order, Ra (um), Ra (micro inch), and our personal favorite (and the most often used standard) RMS. This chart conforms to ASME Y14.36M.

We’re Here, You’re Here, What’s the Question?

On any given day, we are likely to have a honing machine in our inventory, we probably have a “Timesaver” type production belt sanding machine as well. Regarding service and support, our team excels in the application of sanding belts for those machines. Grinding wheels for grinders, honing oil for honing machines along with deburring stones. All the consumables you’re likely to need can be had in one place. At Bud's Machine Tools, our definition of used finishing machines is pretty broad. We are likely to include bead blasters, because if you ever saw a bead blasted finish as compared to the same part without blasting, you would have to agree bead blasting is a finishing operation. For basically the same reason, we include sand blasting systems as finishers and frequently have them available as well. And of course, you can get bead blast media or sand blasting sand from our extensive parts department. In our lexicon, parts washers are defined as “finishing machines” and therefore are likely to show up in this sub-category of equipment, and from time to time we will have one or more available.

Treat Yourself to Some Used Heat Treating Equipment!

Heat-treating equipment? Yes, we've had a few major components of heat treating like ovens, furnaces, blowers, and mold fans. Sometimes even the ducting has gone with these assorted apparatuses. Metal heat treating is an effective way to soften metal prior to forming or machining. A softened metal will be easier to bend in a press, cut to size or form to a required shape. Heat treating metal will also harden metal once it's formed or cut to shape. Heat treating to soften metal in the manufacturing process reduces the risk of metal tear, lowering your scrap rate. Additionally, softened metals reduce the wear and tear on forming tools and cutting implements. Heat treating also tempers and hardens metals, improving wear resistance. Extremely hard metals can be used in the creation of your own cutting tools, especially those in need of sharply defined edges and cutting surfaces.

Heat Treating for All the Right Reasons, at the Right Price!

At Bud's Machine Tools one thing is for sure: when we come across opportunities to take equipment in on trade, we consider all industrial metal working related machinery that’s out there. This would include heat-treating equipment of various types. Interestingly enough, there is a lot more to the heat-treating process and those who provide it than a person not in that particular field might first think. Let’s become a little bit more aware of what a “heat-treating process” really is and what impact it has on the manufactured part. The first thing we should probably consider are the different major types of heat treating.

• The first, and probably the most well-known heat treating process is hardening. Most people not associated with the heat-treating industry think of hardening when they think of heat treat.
• But there are many other kinds of heat treating that go on every day with just as much frequency in the industry as hardening, such as quenching, a specific method of quenching can give a metal a precise property it didn’t have before.
• Tempering is another process done on a day-to-day basis all across this great nation. Tempering is a process whereby a metal is heated to a high temperature to relieve a brittle condition. Most parts that require quenching will frequently require tempering.
• Another heat-treating process that is implemented every day is annealing. Annealing is used to soften a harder metal before conducting machining operations, which is simplified with the metal in a softer state.

These are just a few of the many sub-categories of the heat-treating process being conducted industry-wide across this great nation. At Bud's Machine Tools our familiarity with the heat-treating process and the equipment that goes with it has grown over our five decades of selling and maintaining fabrication and chip-making machines on the shop floor.

What All Is Involved in Heat Treating, and Where Can I Buy Previously-Owned?

Well, honestly, we’re kinda biased on that point. We think Bud's Machine Tools are the best people to call if you wish to learn more about heat treating in your own facility, instead of sending your parts out. Heat-treating equipment can get as involved as a company would want it to be. Obviously, the first major piece of the puzzle is the furnace, and probably the first question to ask about the furnace is about the size: can we get one just a little larger than the largest part we want to put in there? How would you like your furnace fueled? Gas-fired is pretty popular, so is electric — which one is best for your operation? What about all the peripheral equipment you will need to have besides the furnace? If your parts are on the larger side, you will need some way to get the heavier parts into and out of the furnace. How will you equip a cooling area? You will need a place where your parts that have just come out of the furnace can air cool safely. You will need some type of racking that can withstand high temperatures, and if you make smaller parts you will need some sort of a tray that can withstand the furnace’s highest temperatures time and time again. Creating your own heat-treating capacity can be quite costly if you don’t find a company like Bud's Machine Tools that knows how to save you money through used equipment. If Bud's doesn’t have a part of a heat-treating system in stock, we have resources available to us that will source and locate whatever we need to make a system complete to our customer’s specifications.

Used Electrical Equipment for Sale

Step it up or step it down, we have used electrical transformers that can adjust your alternating current wall power to whatever voltage you need. Save money by buying used electrical equipment for your shop. Check our our inventory of quality, name-brand electrical equipment. Transformers are designed to last for many years under normal working conditions. These are solid-state devices that have no moving parts to wear out. In some cases transformers can operate below the rated voltages, but in no instances can the transformer operate above the rating. Our experienced sales representatives can help you select the right-size machine for your needs.

What We Have Here Might Shock You! (In a Good Way, of Course!)

When we talk used electrical equipment, we might have in stock at any given time transformers, electrical disbursement panels, generators, phase converters, servo-drives, buss bars, motors — you name it. The trick is to find the right piece at the time you need it. That’s where Bud's Machine Tools comes in. You see, if we don’t have a, say, voltage stabilizer in stock, we have more than one option to procure just the right item for your specific needs. We have many relationships built up over the years that allow us to find almost anything a company might need to complete their project. In addition to that, our competent service department can suggest the properly rated electrical components for any requirement. Want to know how to run a 220 volt, 3 phase machine with only single phase power? We can tell you how, and even source the equipment you would need to make that happen. Our service department has installed all kinds of electrical equipment associated with our machine tools, such as battery chargers for electric-powered fork lifts. We have much familiarity with buss bars and plugs because our technicians have a reputation solving all the issues — including electrical — that arise with the installation of machinery. Our used electrical equipment section will often contain other sometimes less-well known used electrical components. Ever hear of a “voltage stabilizer”? We’ll have one or two of these in stock most of the time, but it’s always best to check with us to insure we still have the necessary component on the shelf.

Why Do We Stock Unusual Electrical Components? Because We Can!

In our line of work, you run across many unusual electrical components. We swear, with some of the equipment we get in we think to ourselves, “Oh, that thing will never sell.” Then, one day, somebody walks by and says, “I’ve been looking for one of these forever!” And out the door it goes. That’s why it is imperative that when you see something on our website you should call in right away to be sure the item is still available for sale. Transformers are likely to be in stock most of the time, we would also usually have phase converters (which allow the operation of a three-phase piece of equipment be run on a single phase). This ability to run a three-phase machine on single phase allows operating out in far flung areas where single phase is the only power available. We will, on occasion, come across a set of switchgears that got traded in on a machine deal. These are used to control, protect and isolate major machine tools from electrical damage. Occasionally we will take possession of a generator, usually of higher power output. We have had, at one time or another, power distribution boards, electrical distribution panels and even direct voltage regulators among our bill of fare in this category. Don’t waste your time looking for an obscure electrical or electronic item — just call Bud's Machine Tools. If we don’t have it on the shelf we know where to get it.

Equip Your Shop with Our Used Shop Equipment

We have the equipment that every shop needs to run smoothly. Why buy new when you can save money with one of our quality pieces of used equipment. If you don't see the shop equipment that you're looking in our inventory, give us call. We may be able to help you locate what you need.

If You Need Peripheral Shop Equipment, You Have Come to the Right Place!

Everybody, as well as any company, has a “catch-all” don’t they? You know what a “catch-all” is right? It’s a place that varies in size from home to home and factory to factory, this place is where everything the person or factory has that they don’t know what to do with, ends up here. This is Bud's Machine Tools “catch-all” spot for our used shop equipment. The interesting thing about that is, there is likely to be some unusual equipment here in our little “catch-all” segment we call used shop equipment. What is peripheral shop equipment anyway? That is a very important question that any owner of a shop or manufacturing company should consider when opening a new facility, or expanding a facility already established. This type of equipment is as necessary as the company's best producing piece of equipment. These machines generally occupy the background of the shop going to work every day and producing the necessary services required, so the company can function normally day in and day out. Here are some machines most shops can’t live without: air compressors, fork lift trucks, coolant mixers, bench vises, bench grinders, and a delivery truck/van. If your expansion or implementation of a new facility includes the capacity to do in-house maintenance, then your list of used shop equipment just doubled. The list could go on and on, but that’s not necessary at this time — you probably get the idea. Anything and everything is liable to be here, so one must check back every so often to see what we may have brought in to sell as a used piece of shop equipment.

Used Accessories for Your Used (or New) Machines

Looking to repair, upgrade or add accessories to one of your shop machines? We may have just the part or accessory that you need. Check out the used accessories that we have in stock. Can't find what you are looking for here? Give us a call, we may be able to locate the machine accessory or part that you need.

If It’s Time to Accessorize, You’re in the Right Place!

The machine tool accessory department. This place is like Disneyland for grown men and women — provided those grown men and women make their living in the metalworking industry. Okay, so maybe the amusement park analogy is a bit of a stretch, how about a toy store for grown-ups? Yeah that’s the ticket. Yep, this is the place you look to see what we might have on a hot-to-go special, or what Bud's Machine Tools can provide in the way of used accessories (and if you need a new accessory, we can help there too!). The beauty of this place is anything you can imagine we either have, or can get for you in short order. What makes this place even more fun is we don’t just gussy up fabrication machines — believe us, we do plenty of that — we also love to get into used (or new) accessories for chip making machines as well. The sky is the limit, we can get you anything you need! Now, let’s say you just purchased a used 12-foot press brake and you would like to up the brake's capability by adding a couple optional items. Our Used Accessories section here is the first place you would go to see what we might have in inventory. With any luck, you'll read down the page a little bit to where you see us make the statement probably three times already — we can get anything there is currently on the market for any kind of machine. (There, we said it again.)

What Kind of Equipment Might I Find Here?

Well, here’s the thing, the category of "accessories" really entails more than what you may find here. A couple different departments within Bud's Machine Tools actually could get involved in the process of accessorizing your new or used machine. The first department, if you will, is the sales department. Whether you bought a new or used machine, the sales staff will check with you first, to see if you wish to add any options prior to shipping. Let’s say you have a press brake delivered and as you operate the equipment you realize you could use, say, hydraulic clamping on the tool holders or a different lower die rail. If you purchased a used or new ironworker, you might want a bigger hole punch. If you purchased a plate roll you might be interested in an optional overhead support. In any of these scenarios you would find yourself working with the experienced staff in our in-house parts department for that upgrade or punch set. The same goes for the purchase of a band saw — our staff has considerable experience in cutting applications and would procure the correct blade for your application. So, you can see accessorizing your machine could involve working outside this subcategory for many of the items you might not see on this page.

When We Say Everything We’re Not Kidding!

Most everything we mentioned above sounds like it leans towards fabrication equipment, and we suppose it does. That’s why we'll take a little time here to expound a bit further. Bud's Machine Tools also sells many “chip making” machines like lathes and mills. Consequently, we get very involved in accessories for those types of equipment. We’re talking perishable tooling like drill sets, end mills sets, countersink sets and so on. We also get involved with rotary tables, vises, dividing heads, lathe chucks, and consumable tooling for the lathe.

Just the Fine Print

Bud's Machine Tools makes no claims pertaining to the suitability of the existing safety systems on the equipment we sell. All "point of operation" safety is the full responsibility of the end user. Bud's Machine Tools is pleased to offer an exclusive 30-day return/repair privilege as standard on any piece of used equipment that we sell, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Bud's will refund the entire amount of the purchase, if returned in "as sold" condition, less freight to and from the purchaser's location. Bud's Machine Tools offers a full complement of cleaning, painting, and repair services which gives you the ability to "Buy with Confidence."

If You Find Something You Want to Buy, What Happens Next?

You could always give us the order and we’ll process your order for a used piece of shop equipment quick, fast and in a hurry. Seriously folks, the seasoned sales staff at Bud's Machine Tools will not try to pressure sell you. Our worst nightmare is that call from a customer that got a new or used machine and says, “It won’t do what you said it would do,” and the customer wants to send the machine back. Just that scenario is the reason our sales staff sits and listens to what the customer’s needs are, then spends additional time to make sure the machine we recommend will indeed do what we said it will do. Bud's Machine Tools — Putting the customer first, each and every time.