Gorton I 22 Mastermill Serial #

[63steward]

Hi Gorton,
I thought it might be with the serial # series, but I should upload the rest for someone else. You don't see many of these for sale, or otherwise. I have a shop full of tools waiting to be set up and no time . YRC... what can u say? Could have been any of them. I am trying to find one in CA that I can go get myself. There are probably better ones out there somewhere "locally"....

 

[Gorton mill]

I'm in PA. Not far from Philadelphia.
Liljoebrshooter : What taper do you have on yours?
I've got a 40 taper on mine, but a 5/8" drawbar won't fit through the spindle.
I'm trying to figure out if this has been retrofit, or if it comes from the factory like that.

Hi Gorton,
I thought it might be with the serial # series, but I should upload the rest for someone else. You don't see many of these for sale, or otherwise. I have a shop full of tools waiting to be set up and no time . YRC... what can u say? Could have been any of them. I am trying to find one in CA that I can go get myself. There are probably better ones out there somewhere "locally"....

The only one that provided me with consistently good results was CF and they're out of business.

 

[63steward]

Gorton,
I know, I worked for Roadway Express for a LONG time before Yellow screwed it all up. Got hurt, back in school.

 

[63steward]

Hi All,
Been a minute since i"ve had time to play around in shop. I just got mill moved and hooked to vid, works. But, dumb question... the literature I have shows only one point for lubrication of spindle head/bearings. And it's for grease. Does this machine not have an oil bath for gearbox/spindles? seems nuts to me. there was a chunk of copper tubing hooked to a zirconia's, can't imagine what it looks like in there. The power downed says fill with no 30 machine oil, but think that's just a small reservoir. Any experience with this out there?
Thanks

 

[andrsn]

I know this is an old thread but if by chance anyone has a MasterMill 1-22 parts machine, I'm trying to get my Tracemaster converted to have a tilting head. Thanks!