Picking up a Gorton 3-34 universal mill ...

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Spending the night at my sons place, and heading down to Colorado Springs area in the morning to load up 8000# of loveliness. 600 miles round trip, but I've been looking for something like this for a while, and the price was right. will post some pics when I get her home. Mike

Same mill, but the one I'm getting also has the vertical head.
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Sweet. Pics or it didn’t’t Happen!
 
Have seen some nice machines sell really cheap.
Those are the ones that are big and manual so hobby shops cant support the amps to run them or don't want to
deal with such weight or size. Most working shops are selling them off to update equipment.
Perhaps I have the amperage available but no room.
Am seriously envious.
Good job!
 
Congrats Mike,
Have a safe journey and we're looking forward to seeing the "beast". A friend of mine has a Gorton mill he purchased from a university auction, Its a well built machine.

Paco
 
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Nice machine Mike.
As the saying goes, Go Big or Go Home

Greg
 
That looks like a great mill Mike.
Congratulations!

So many questions....
What year?
What spindle taper?
What size motor?

I can't wait for some pictures.
-brino
 
I bet she's a honey, gortons are tanks , made to use forever . Hope she's good an tight in the right way. Smooth as silk in many ways. Am I drooling on this , well maybe I absolutely love big mills and machinery for metal. Best of luck , be careful moving her and the driving too. Little protection prayer going up too.
 
From what I see from the catalog page, it is not a "universal" mill; it does not appear to have a swiveling table; that would make it a "plain" horizontal milling machine, but very nice!
 
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