My Workshop - where steamengines are made
The Bridgeport: The Chinese milling machine: One Lathe: Two Lathe: My big lathe, in need of restoring: And the Bridgeport milling a tripple expansion engine's bed plate:

2 more pictures from tonight Tool Post Grider: Surface Grinder:

"my workshop"
:shock: I like your workshop, it looks just like mine!!!!!!!!

What machinery do I need??
Do I need a milling machine with both horizontal and vertical milling capabilities? There is $1000 Can. price diff. but I guess you'll only buy it once! I'm going to collect all the toys neccesary before I retire while I can afford them! Then- there's the accessaries Den :?:

You don't need one as such, a skillful machinist can pretty much do anything on any machine, but its always very handy to have a machine which can do everything. Some things you have to alter the design slightly to suite your machines capabilities.

Horizontal mill
I dont earn a living running machines but I stay busy building first one thing and then another in my hobby metals shop.. I have 4 vertical mills , ligh-*test*-('") one weighs 2500 lbs., I say that to impress you that I am very serious about metalsworking and if I need something I will buy it.... I dont have a horizontal mill and have never needed one, dont want one... . The only machineshop in my area that has a horizontal mill uses it on rare occasion when its convenient to set up a gang of cutters to simultaneously trim both ends of a large quantity of the same parts. . Yesterday I used a sawblade mounted on a mandrel in spindle of my vertical mill to slot a workpiece. That job could have been done with a horizontal mill except I also needed to drill a precisely located hole while workpiece was clamped in the vice and that would been impossible with a dedicated horizontal mill and inconvenient with one of the universal /convertible horizontal/vertical mills... . And a horizontal/vertical convertible mill often has no quill travel requiering all up and down travel to be done with the knee..Thats too much like work if youre drilling holes...Nawwww bad deal.