Help Identify This Mill

gwarner

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This image is on a auction site. I plan on going to bid but would like to be prepared.
If I had an idea on the Mill I could look up weight, tooling etc...
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Any ideal.
 
Hard to tell form just that one picture, what I see is a horizontal mill with the arbor support turned up, the motor and counter shaft look shop made as it probably was originally powered from an overhead shaft, also it looks like it has power feed on the X axis. As far as the weight I would guess some where in the 1,500 2,000 lb. range?
 
I could be an old hendy or a very early KT. It probably uses Brown And Sharpe tapper, tooling. To be on the safe side I could plan on weight to be more on the 2500 tp 3000. It's actual value will be set by the auction, in the heat of the moment. If you try to resell it, the value may be less. In terms of production, it is not a big $ maker. Old machines are massive in comparison to their work envelope. As long as it is not worn out, they can do some very good work. Even a worn out machine can do some very good work once you know the quirks and how to work around them. When I was new to machine work I had a lot of trouble wrapping my mind around a horizontal machine for lay out and operations, vertical machines make a lot more sense to me. Now I think a horizontal machine gives more options for serious metal removal.

It will be fun to see where you go from here, please keep us posted.

Tim
 
Well it was an old Cincinnati #2. Was in OK shape but far larger than I would be able to accommodate for the space I have. It did have some cutters with it.
It went for $500, Which was what I decided would be the most I would pay. Unfortunately my last bid was $450. There was only two of us bidding
Visited with the guy who did take and and he said if I had bid one more time he was not going to go any higher.
The $500 was based on that I would spend another $200 - 250 to haul it home then the way he had the motor rigged up I would have had to redo that and As I said I did not have the space but if I could have got it cheap I was willing to live with that.
 
That is quite the gem. Well hopefully that fellow is part of HM. I'd love to hear how he makes out with it.
One of the things I like about auctions is visiting with other people there - for a few moments I can feel as if I'm not completely crazy for being obsessed with old iron. How does that work? If you find others like you, then you must not be nuts?
 
That is quite the gem. Well hopefully that fellow is part of HM. I'd love to hear how he makes out with it.
One of the things I like about auctions is visiting with other people there - for a few moments I can feel as if I'm not completely crazy for being obsessed with old iron. How does that work? If you find others like you, then you must not be nuts?


Na just means you are not the only nut out here.:laughing:
 
Dave Smith Rochester MN
Has a Hendy mill.
He should be able to give you some input.

Daryl
MN
 
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