Gorton Vertical Milling Machine

[ListerDiesel]

Just picked up an 8-D Superspeed mill on ebay for about $US40.00, collected it on the trailer yesterday:-

There is a website run by one of the Gorton family at:

http://gorton-machine.org:8080

Has anyone got one of these in running order? I noticed that manuals and parts lists are available on the site which is nice.

Peter

[e2cub]

I have the bigger 9J and love it. It's not as versitile as a Bridgeport but is much stiffer and will probably do better work. It will take heavy cuts with a large tool and I have used a 1/16 carbide endmill with no problem. Larry

[KeithW]

Nice looking machine! My advice is to get the manuals. I picked up a Kerney Trecker and a Brown & Sharp, both for fairly cheap. I spent more on the documents than the machines and it was worth it.

keithw

[ListerDiesel]

Originally Posted by KeithW

Nice looking machine! My advice is to get the manuals. I picked up a Kerney Trecker and a Brown & Sharp, both for fairly cheap. I spent more on the documents than the machines and it was worth it.

keithw

Rick Gorton runs a website for the machines, and the manuals are on there, albeit only in HTML but good enough to read. Drawings also on there.

I am looking to get the quill converted to R8 from the Gorton taper, a company called Wells Index in Muskegon does the job for about $200 or so, but I may try over here in the UK first. The quill isn't big enough to go for a 30Int :-((

Thanks for the reply and thanks to Larry also.

Peter

[ListerDiesel]

Originally Posted by e2cub

I have the bigger 9J and love it. It's not as versitile as a Bridgeport but is much stiffer and will probably do better work. It will take heavy cuts with a large tool and I have used a 1/16 carbide endmill with no problem. Larry

I ran into a 9-J yesterday at a machine tool dealer down near Hereford in Herefordshire.

Bit tired, but was all there. The dealer was going to junk it as he had no interest from customers for it.

Peter

[FarmallJeff]

Hi Guys i have an 8 1/2 D miller that i bought last year its a real good machine. the guy i bought it from his father made it when working for Gorton.
Got all kinds of tooling with it.and a duplicator.
Goodluck and enjoy it.
JEFF