Let's See Your Mill

[Welrod]

Hi Jhon

This mill has been upgraded with three-phase (3 x 200 V).

Michel.

[doubleboost]

Michel.
Plenty of "grunt" then (power)
John

[truckin23]

Here's what i bought today took some of it to my house and the big parts went to my shop for restoration he wanted $250.00 for it I got it for 200 and it was 5 miles from my house and here was the ad on craigslist :

42" Golk Knee Mill w/ 2-axis DRO - $250 (san jose west)

This machine is large and very heavy. If you are serious about taking
it you will at the very least need a pickup truck (that you don't mind
scraping up) and some strong friends. I would recommend a truck with a
lift gate to make your life easier.

This mill was made in San Francisco, which should tell you something
about its age. It has been owned and retrofitted by many craftsman. It
has a motorized feed on the 42 inch table, a two axis Bridgeport
digital readout, a 1HP back EMF speed controlled DC motor and an RPM
spindle speed meter. The RPM meter is accurate even at very low speeds
and was my addition to this fine machine. As you can see in the
pictures below the mill is disassembled (it's the only way it can be
moved). I will also throw in the hefty machinists vice shown.

[PixMan]

I can't wait to see photos of that Golk all reassembled and running! I'd never heard of one before now.

Myself, last night I got a text msg from a friend who may be moving his commercial job shop from his dad's garage to a true 3-phase equipped commercial property. He's got to move two 1980's vintage Matsuura VMC's and his new Haas SL10 CNC lathe, but once those are out I can get my new-to-me ProtoTrak-equipped Alliant (Taiwan) 2HP knee mill (Bridgeport clone.)

Keeping my fingers crossed. The guy is in his mid-20's and is buried in work. H says his new lathe is so busy he has to hire a relative to load parts in the mills. I really admire this brilliant young man's initiative and ability to get things done!

[Mayhem]

Trukin - I too am looking forward to seeing the progress of your new mill.

PixMan - does this mean you are retiring your Dad's Bridgeport?

[DaveH]

Truckin,

Fine looking stout mill you have there

DaveH

[truckin23]

Thanks everyone I have been putting a lot of miles in trucking not much
time to do projects but I did bring home the base and arm to clean up and paint I'll try to take pictures along the way .
Last Saturday I had it in the back of my pickup I stopped at Home Depot a guy was looking at it when I came out and said he knew that name his best friend worked at a machine shop owned by a German man in San Carlos,Calif. while he was in high school and they had one Funny thing happened to be was when he told me the name was Seidelhuber (say “Sigh dell hew burr”)they had been in business since 1906 well my company bought them in 2005 Mike Seidelhuber the grandson so I'm going to try and reach him in Texas to see if he remembers it in the mean time I'll try to see if Stanford University has a copy of Iron Age 1953 to get what little info it had on the Golk
   

[Bill Gruby]

Finally found the Mill I want. It's a Clausing. It will be in the shop next week. I did a job for Master Machine&Tool and this is how I wanted to be paid.

[DaveH]

Nice Mill Bill,

A good sturdy one Just what you need

DaveH

[Mayhem]

Nice one Bill. Seems the price was right too!