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2nd Jul 2017, 08:32 PM #1Senior Member
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Horizontal borer , not much money.
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2nd Jul 2017, 10:20 PM #2Pink 10EE owner
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Manufacturer I guess is C J Hasemer Pty Ltd Sydney. Google brings the name up as an engineering firm back in the day.
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3rd Jul 2017, 02:19 PM #3Most Valued Member
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It'll still work out an expensive machine. By the time you add the cost of transport to anywhere, unless you know someone coming back empty from there????
Probably a good machine for someone who lives within a few hours drive. Don't know that it would look that good painted light red though.
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3rd Jul 2017, 09:15 PM #4Diamond Member
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i'd be all over that if it wasn't on the other side of the country. It always amazes me how many machines were made under license locally, we had a good machine tool industry once.
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3rd Jul 2017, 10:02 PM #5Pink 10EE owner
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Seems to have a very short region for the traveling spindle. it should be sticking out the rear by three feet or so.
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4th Jul 2017, 04:46 PM #6Most Valued Member
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Yes that was my thought. It looks very much like a simplified Kearns O type HBM to me. Mine has 18" of spindle travel, that one looks like it has maybe 8" at best. Might have none, hard to say. The facing head looks very much like mine too.
If in reasonable condition that's quite a good price. They're a solid machine with rapid feeds on all axes. I don't use mine much since I got my S type but the O type is a pretty nice machine.
PDW
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4th Jul 2017, 09:05 PM #7
So I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to HBMs (alright a lot ignorant!)....
If there is no spindle travel, how does that work with the tailstock? or is the tailstock more like a lathe tailstock where it extends towards the head? I'm assuming you can (depending on the job) put a bar, with attached tool, through your job to allow you to cut a long way out from the head?
It's relatively close to me, "only" 300km away. Yes, I might be able to find a partly empty truck. Getting it cleaned up and tooled up would be a major distraction that I don't need just at the moment. What was that phone number again??....
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The Beryl BlokeEquipmenter.... Projects I own
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5th Jul 2017, 06:26 PM #8Most Valued Member
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The tail support is just there to support the outboard end of a long boring bar. It doesn't do anything else. My Kearns O type has the vertical travel of the spindle assembly keyed to the tail support so both rise/fall in synchrony. The S type doesn't do this.
You can mount the workpiece on the table and power-feed the table along the ways to bore between 'centres' or if the machine has a quill you can power-feed the quill. A long bar slides through the correct sized bushing in the rear bar support.
They are very versatile machines. If it is a copy of a Kearns O type it probably has a 5MT taper in the quill. Tooling isn't hard to come by. You can easily make tooling for the facing head, it's basically all single point stuff easily made and easily sharpened.
You can take the facing head off - it just bolts on with 4 bolts - and use big face mills bolted on or even a big face plate & use the machine as a short bed lathe. I can fit a 28" face plate on mine.
Up to you but at that price I'd be on the phone & planning a little road trip.
PDW
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5th Jul 2017, 09:23 PM #9Pink 10EE owner
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Says it is sold now.
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