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Bill

this looks exactly like my Grizzly except for the color. I have used it for about 8 years now with no problems except for 1 motor capacitor popping and that happened about 3-4 months after I got it. My total on it was in the $3600 with DRO but I had to install it myself. Good luck.

Mark Smith
Mark Smith Custom Cues / Beezers Billiards
Russellville, Arkansas
 
I have an Enco like that one from 1995 and with a 3 jaw chuck I have 0.001 runout believe it or not and the top speed I think it is 1700's. More than enough...
 
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mark smith said:
Bill

this looks exactly like my Grizzly except for the color. I have used it for about 8 years now with no problems except for 1 motor capacitor popping and that happened about 3-4 months after I got it. My total on it was in the $3600 with DRO but I had to install it myself. Good luck.

Mark Smith
Mark Smith Custom Cues / Beezers Billiards
Russellville, Arkansas
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What is DRO?

thanks,

Craig
 
install dro yourself

mark smith said:
Bill

this looks exactly like my Grizzly except for the color. I have used it for about 8 years now with no problems except for 1 motor capacitor popping and that happened about 3-4 months after I got it. My total on it was in the $3600 with DRO but I had to install it myself. Good luck.

Mark Smith
Mark Smith Custom Cues / Beezers Billiards
Russellville, Arkansas
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Mark
how difficult was the install?
thought about doing it too.
JerseyBill
 
Guerra Cues said:
I have an Enco like that one from 1995 and with a 3 jaw chuck I have 0.001 runout believe it or not and the top speed I think it is 1700's. More than enough...
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Hi,

I have a six jaw on my Enco and I indicate less than .001 after truing the chuck, grind boring the jaws and honing. For that monney you can't go wrong. Put another grand in your budget for tooling and quick change tool post stuff and your good to go.

If you get the Enco, make sure you get the Baldor Motor upgrade. The motors from China suck.

Good Luck,

Rick G
 
enco

My enco is an 1985 belt drive. 1500 rpm and 6 jaw. I rebuilt the headstock last winter. My chuck is inside one ... actually about 1/3rd of one thousandth. I didnt look that close but the new enco didnt appear to have a stand included. And for cue purposes, you can throw that enco chuck away. So there is still quite a bit of expense getting set up after you get it home. If the stand is included, that's probably a decent price though.
 
fugdbdt said:
My enco is an 1985 belt drive. 1500 rpm and 6 jaw. I rebuilt the headstock last winter. My chuck is inside one ... actually about 1/3rd of one thousandth. I didnt look that close but the new enco didnt appear to have a stand included. And for cue purposes, you can throw that enco chuck away. So there is still quite a bit of expense getting set up after you get it home. If the stand is included, that's probably a decent price though.
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That's what I did with my new Birmingham. Those stock chucks are junk at best . It's a workout just opening them. I took out the cam locks too. Got better ones and with stronger pins so I can hear the cam locks click in place when disengaged.
You will have to machine the face place for the new chuck as well.
 
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