Screwdriver
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I had to give 600. Unfortunately with the sheer weight of it there'd be a lot of money if it went for scrap, which makes it hard to get for any less.
Sounds like a steal if it's a runner even if you need to replace the odd motor to get it moving. I think the recent collapse in scrap value means a fair few machines have actually been saved from the bin. Rigidity is everything really and it's by no means a small mill! So you should see the benefit in that immense rigidity once you've taken the hit in getting the thing shifted and finding a floor strong enough to take it.
As an aside, with a mass that large and that compact, you could easily build a simple device for measuring just how much it distorts spacetime around it! Seriously. Just a Cavendish torsion bar experiment would do it...