KY metal muncher
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2020
- Location
- Owensboro, KY
I recently acquired an Italian horizontal milling machine made by GRAZIANO LUDOR. It's a beast weighing in around 6K lbs and has a universal table, roughly 12 X 54 inches. The surface of the table is in excellent condition as are all the bearing surfaces of the machine including the presence of hand scrapeing (sp?) marks.
It has a CAT 40 taper in the spindle as does the vertical head.
It is missing the arbor support, which I plan to build from an aluminum weldiment or maybe a billet depending on what I can find. It does have an unusual angle on the dovetail of the overarm, 55 degrees instead of the standard 60 or 45 degree angle one typically finds.
I would like to find a machine manual and have searched online including lathes.uk and have come up empty. There are some lathe manuals, but nothing for a mill.
Several years ago I visited some Italian machine tool builders as a guest of the Italian trade Commission and was very impressed with the quality of their products, on par with anything the Germans or Swiss were producing.
So if anyone happens to have a GRAZIANO LUDOR milling machine manual, or knows where to find one I would really appreciate being directed in the right direction.
It has a CAT 40 taper in the spindle as does the vertical head.
It is missing the arbor support, which I plan to build from an aluminum weldiment or maybe a billet depending on what I can find. It does have an unusual angle on the dovetail of the overarm, 55 degrees instead of the standard 60 or 45 degree angle one typically finds.
I would like to find a machine manual and have searched online including lathes.uk and have come up empty. There are some lathe manuals, but nothing for a mill.
Several years ago I visited some Italian machine tool builders as a guest of the Italian trade Commission and was very impressed with the quality of their products, on par with anything the Germans or Swiss were producing.
So if anyone happens to have a GRAZIANO LUDOR milling machine manual, or knows where to find one I would really appreciate being directed in the right direction.