You need a Power Feed, but which one?

I Compare 4 Power feeds for a Milling machine. They run in price from $125 to $1000 come along and find out witch one is best for your machine.

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E bay Wing Ding $125 Power Drive

E bay $350 This not the one I tested It's no longer available

E Bay $800 Servo My favorite, but expensive

[merlinmagnus]

I picked up one of the Wing Ding power feeds for my Y axis half a year ago and it's still chugging along. I didn't have the speed limitation issue on mine. I'm pretty sure your min/max Potentiometers on the speed control board are mis-adjusted. That's an easy fix you can try. Thanks for the side by side.

[brandontscheschlog]

Will you be returning to Youtube anytime soon? You are one of my favorites and I miss your content.

[bmlennox]

Dale-miss your good videos!!! waiting for some more :) Hope all is well with you- God bless you and your family

[robertdavis]

I've been missing you, Dale. I hope all is well. Love your videos.

[dannywilsher]

Due to popular demand, you must make more videos!!! Thanks for your generosity and time for sending the awesome book collection to Keith!!!

[gosolobox]

My Millrite MVN came with a broken Servo in a box. I was planning to buy one of those cheep ones when a buddy stopped by the shop, saw the broken Servo, and offered to take it home and fix it. About a week later and $35 in parts, and the Servo is running lie a champ. Good friends are priceless..

[billdivine]

I have one of the very first Servos made, given to my dad in the 1970s by his friend, the inventor and founder of Servo Products. In fact, it was the only product he had at the time so it doesn’t have a number, but it’s the 140, and there’s no on off switch, and he made them at his home shop so the tag actually says “Servo Products, Altadena California” It’s a residential city in north Los Angeles County where he lived. Still works great!

[EverettsWorkshop]

Thanks for doing this comparison, Dale. I FINALLY found a Bridgeport clone I could afford that wasn't beaten up, and am now in the process of doing little fixes and upgrades to it over time. A power feed would be nice at some point but it appears that going too cheap has its drawbacks in power feeds, much like most everything else in the realm of tooling.

[Awegner]

Nice video Dale! You inspired me to go out in my shop and resurrect my 6F power feed. The handle was gone, the limit switches were gone, and all the wires were cut at one point. After some mock up parts, trial, error, and a few extra relays, it's alive. That thing can push me across the floor if I try to oppose it. Now that's impressive!

[davidbentley]

EXCELLENT VIDEO! Not only because it answers a question about power feeds that I have now, your delivery is perfect. No superfluous BS. SOOO many of these videos on YT are so awful I just cant watch them even tho I need their information! You got right to the point, made quality evaluations and gave a complete, concise summation. THANK YOU ( I AM subscribed!)

[RockingJOffroad]

Boy that first one is a real wing dinger! Seriously I have one of those on my mill identical to the one that you reviewed and I’ve been very happy with it with the exception of the speed pot. The speed off has a dead spots down on low speeds I think I need to take it apart and replace it with a good potentiometer.

[richardbennett]

I wanted to add to the comments that many of us miss your content, I hope all is well with you and hope to see you back soon

[MaturePatriot]

A good review. Without sponsors, or Patreon, most home shops will go with the most inexpensive. Like handheld grinders. I have 6 HF handheld grinders with different wheels and brushes mounted on them. For all 6, I have less than $70 invest as I buy them on sale. One 4.5" Metabo can cost $125, unless you catch it on sale. I can wear out 10 of the HF and still not pay for a Metabo.

[QuiltingJeri]

Still enjoy re watching your videos. We hope to see you on the platform again sometime soon. 👍

[brianwalk]

Great video and valuable information, I don't think anyone else has covered this yet thank you

[MattysWorkshop]

Gday Dale, thanks for taking the time to do the testing, the Cincinnati I just picked up is all geared through the knee, I’ve never had power feed before up I can see I’m going to really enjoy it. The rapid is extremely fast, I must check it over 10 seconds and see what it comes in at, thanks again and take care

[steveg]

I've had good luck with the al500p. I did one on my z and y axis since my x still has the servo. Adding power feed to the knee has just been an amazing improvement. I got so tired of cranking it up and down for tool changes. The shaft adapter is garbage, I ended up machining a whole new shaft for my Z axis with the differences integrated. But worth the time and effort.

[marycarmona]

Hi Dale! Started following you after meeting at the bash. It was nice meeting you. I'm new to all this but I'm excited to learn something so fun and interesting. Hope you start putting up more videos 😊

[larryschweitzer]

I have an older Jet 9x49 that came with a factory X-feed. I got really tired of cranking the Z up & down. Tried a drill, didn't like it. I supplied the make & model of the mill to the feed seller. When I went to install it the new shaft had different threads! Dealer didn't have the correct one so I made one. My X has limit switches that I've never installed, I should do that. I did install the Z limit switches. I like the round handle on the X and have decided to modify the Z to take one that turns all the time. Getting the crank to engage is a PIA. Will just put a small nob on the wheel. So I can let it be engaged full time.

[edwardwilson]

I've missed you so much! You're back, Yay!