06-21-2012, 03:48 PM
Milling Machines, Hmm,
I got really lucky a few years back and bought a Yugoslavian Horizontal/Vertical Mill, branded a "Gate 05" It is truly a thing to behold, having been trained in a steel works where Bridgeports were looked down upon as feeble and big Cincinnati's were the order of the day, that is if you weren't on a Zayer bed mill or something like that, When I left there and was running a 9x42 BP copy, I liked it but it wasn't impressive to me.
The Gate turned up on Ebay, advertised as a "Gate" the listing didn't even have the word Mill in it anywhere, as soon as I saw it I wanted it and placed a £3500 bid, even though no-one had bid on a starting price of £500. A day later it was mine for £500
It seems that no-one else saw it due to the bad advertising.
It was seriously filthy but was in very good order, the dirt was stuck to it so hard as it was still covered in packing grease, at the time I had a workshop full of labour so I got one of my mechanics to do the clean and presto, an almost new looking Gate 05 when I went looking for a realistic price the cheapest similar unit was £15,000
It has two iso40 spindles, a universal table, four axis geared feeds (not DC add on feeds) spiral indexing capability, and super accurate production style axis stops on three axes.
I really like it lots.
Best Regards
Rick
As it was
After a clean, oh and it came with all these tools and a reasonably good vise
I got really lucky a few years back and bought a Yugoslavian Horizontal/Vertical Mill, branded a "Gate 05" It is truly a thing to behold, having been trained in a steel works where Bridgeports were looked down upon as feeble and big Cincinnati's were the order of the day, that is if you weren't on a Zayer bed mill or something like that, When I left there and was running a 9x42 BP copy, I liked it but it wasn't impressive to me.
The Gate turned up on Ebay, advertised as a "Gate" the listing didn't even have the word Mill in it anywhere, as soon as I saw it I wanted it and placed a £3500 bid, even though no-one had bid on a starting price of £500. A day later it was mine for £500
It seems that no-one else saw it due to the bad advertising.
It was seriously filthy but was in very good order, the dirt was stuck to it so hard as it was still covered in packing grease, at the time I had a workshop full of labour so I got one of my mechanics to do the clean and presto, an almost new looking Gate 05 when I went looking for a realistic price the cheapest similar unit was £15,000
It has two iso40 spindles, a universal table, four axis geared feeds (not DC add on feeds) spiral indexing capability, and super accurate production style axis stops on three axes.
I really like it lots.
Best Regards
Rick
As it was
After a clean, oh and it came with all these tools and a reasonably good vise
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