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

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!

He said in P#1 that he is also getting the vertical milling attachment.

So what is the difference between a horizontal+vertical mill and a universal mill?
 
a universal milling machine is one that is equipped to cut spirals; the table screw shaft drives the dividing head through gearing, and the table swivels to match the spiral angle.
 
Got home with the mill at 9pm this evening. Covered over 600miles altogether, through the Eisenhower tunnel at over 11k ft twice, and twice over Rabbit Ears pass, at close to 10k. Burned up about $180 in gas, and had to replace one trailer tire. My old Ford did well pulling around 12k pounds. Loading took a couple of hrs, that mill is seriously heavy. Tried to get the front raised a little with a six foot spud bar, and I could swear I heard the mill chuckling at me. My 12k winch finally prevailed, but it was a struggle. Came with 5ea. horizontal arbors with a ton of spacers, and 8ea. 50 taper tool holders along with some other tooling I haven't had time to look at yet. also got a 300gal. diesel tank and stand for free as he needed to get the storage unit emptied out. John, I believe you are correct on the universal part. The vertical head feature is pretty cool, you loosen four bolts and the whole head swings off to the side to allow use of the horizontal arbors. All in all, a splendid adventure,
and I got to hold my granddaughter again. Will get some better pics in the next day or two, but here are a few from the trip. Mike


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Got a little time today to go through the arbors and tool holders, and get some better pics. Brino, the main spindle motor is 10hp-2 speed. The drive motor for X-Y-Z is 3hp, and the flood coolant pump is 1/4hp. Year of manufacture appears to be 1964. Going to have to up the ante on my 5hp RPC, I have two more 5hp 3phase motors I can piggy back on. I just went in and took a look at the BP, and it now looks kind of puny in comparison to the the Gorton. I think this is going to be a very versital machine, and will get a lot of use once I get the shop finished up this summer. Thanks for following along. Mike

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Now that is an incredible piece of iron/machine, I hope you have the space and the foundation to hold that machine. Really sweet and looking good.
Mark
 
The foundation is a good topic. I figure with only 4 points of contact, there would be 2000 pounds each. Most concrete is good for 3000 per square ft. What is the correct way?
 
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