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Gorton Milling Machine

Following a bit of a discussion with Arthur Griffin yesterday, I put a 'speculative' bid on the Gorton mill on ebay, to find to my surprise that we won it!

Picked it up today, quite a decent little machine with a couple of features that look quite handy.

Does any one have any idea if the taper in the quill is B&S (Brown & Sharpe not Briggs & Stratton!) of Morse Taper? It look like a 3 or 4 MT but I haven't pulled what's in there, out yet.

It's missing the handwheels for the table, but it all works smoothly enough, and no major dings or damage.

I had a quick look on lathes.co.uk but nowt there, and the url on the auction site shows a lot of sales stuff but I haven't looked further to see if anything more is available yet.

Peter

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The full Gorton Archive site is at:

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There is a manual and sales brochure on there which I am looking at now. The standard machine came with collets, with a B&S taper available as an option.

Peter

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HI peter ...it's about the only machine that you can get full manuals to download for free from the company who made it

Manuals and a lot of info here:-

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all the bbest.mark

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Just goes to show that there are good buys out there - even on ebay. The taper might keep you amused for a while - especially if it is for the "Gorton" collets.

Charles

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It looks like your machine is standard with the dreaded Gorton taper, tooling or collets are about as scarce as hens' dentures.. Fortunately you do seem to have one piece of tooling. The long term fix has been to convert the spindle to R8.

Tom

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It doesn't look too much of a job to do, but for £25 is it worth it?

If the rest of the machine is OK it is probably worth doing something, it's quite a decent little machine, smaller than a Bridgie and well made.

Peter

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And how did I miss that one :-))

Mart> >

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Campingstoveman

You've got one already... :-))

Peter

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The company history page is quite interesting.

Bill H Derby

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I have received a nice email from Richard Gorton, who runs the website with the company history etc. He responded to an email I sent through the site on Thursday, but as it was through the company server I didn't get it until this morning when I had a look to see what emails we had received.

He has pointed me to a Yahoo newsgroup for the mills, so I'll have a peek there later on.

Peter

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Address of the group please

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Hi Mike:

"gortonmill" is the Yahoo group name.

Peter

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