Little horizontal bench mill?

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BrianT

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I picked this up on eBay recently. Thought it was interesting, since it was close to home I decided to add it to the collection.

Can't really figure out who made this? I'm leaning towards goodell pratt? Seems like an mt2 taper, old owner thought it was a Brown and Sharpe taper. Has a spindle thread of 1.25-7.

Overall seems in good shape. Small 1/20 hp motor. Not sure how usable it will be but I'm a sucker for odd, old machines.

Any thoughts on the manufacturer? Considering changing the motor once I see how it goes.

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Interesting! Reminds me of an old movie projector, the kind your school teacher would roll out of the closet to show the class a movie way way back in the oldern days!
 
What a beautiful little machine, looks in fair condition a little bit of a clean up and should be good to go.

Not sure if you'll gain much by increasing motor HP. The overhung spindle will not like heavy cuts, try it as is first.
 
Choiliefan said:
vintagemachinery.org has a 1926 G-P catalog online:

Your handwheel on the back is like the one shown:
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There are some similar things to the G-P mill, and some differences. But that is the direction im leaning. I plan to see how it goes with the motor before changing. I will give it a try with some smaller endmills I have. Simple project, some decent T-nuts for the vise maybe.

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Definitely been changed from overhead flat belt drive to an electric motor. Looks a lot like my Burke model #0. Many companies made these sort of bench millers and Lathes.UK describes scenes where rows and rows of these were in factories in which women would be spitting out one specific part over and over.
By the way.... you can see the hole smashed through my housing from when a previous owner converted it to a v-belt. Fixing that hole is on my to do list.
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Here’s a good description of these little millers. Yours does look a little nicer with a decent X & Y feed. Very nice indeed !
http://www.lathes.co.uk/burke/


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Once well-known in the United States for their range of small, plain milling machines, The Burke Machinery Co was incorporated on December the 3rd. 1903 becoming The Burke Machine Tool Co. on October 24th in 1911.
Although advertised under a number of "assumed" names by various British machine-tool agencies during the 1920s and 1930s, it was not until WW2 that any great numbers of these unadorned, simply-finished millers entered the United Kingdom. Although a range of sizes was offered, the No. 0 shown here was the baby of the range and is now probably the hardest to find.
Of the "stub-milling" type with no overarm to support a long cutter-holding arbor, the body and head were cast as one rigid structure like the similar machines from, for example, Stark, Pratt & Whitney (with their Size 00), Van Norman, Benson, Carter & Hakes, Schaublin, Leinen, Sloan & Chace, American Watch Tool Co., Waltham and Barker. However, all these differed from competing machines from manufacturers of precision bench lathes, including Cataract, Ames, Lorch and Mikron, who employed a rather expensively constructed lathe headstock fitted to a suitable base and table assembly.
Equipped with all-lever feeds to the tiny longitudinal and vertical movements (4 inches and 3.25 inches respectively) and just 1.5 inches in traverse by a screw, this was a milling machine intended for the production of small components - probably incorporating the use of simple jigs and a long-suffering woman operator.
Photographed in its restored state with a V-pulley on the plain-bearing spindle, the miller would originally have been driven by a 3-step flat-belt cone pulley, almost certainly from a factory's overhead line shafting..
 
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