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Abwood Vertical Spindle Surface Grinders

Abwood S.G.1A    Abwood S.G.3 & S.G.3.H   Abwood Tool Grinders   

Abwood Circular Dividing Machine    Abwood Vertical Milling Attachment

Manuals are available for Abwood Machine Tools

Still prospering, the  Abwood factory in Dartford, to the east of London, has over many decades, produced a range of limited-type, but high-quality machine tools and engineering accessories including automatic cycle and production horizontal surface grinders with auto sizing; surface grinders with round tables; precision tool and die vertical spindle grinders in manual and hydraulic forms; a universal circular dividing machine; universal compound-angle surface table in round and rectangular forms and a wide range of machine vices including hand-operated and magnetic plain, swivel-base and ones for use on shapers together with a variety of hydraulic and pneumatic power-driven types for production shops. In addition, they also made, and the subject of these pages, a number of carbide and tool-steel grinding and lapping machines including a stand-along chip-break type.
Abwood machine tools were almost all of a specialised nature - though they did offer a conventional horizontal surface grinders the 5025 - their vertical spindle machines falling into this category and consisting of: the early TH/2 and later
S.G.1.A (automatic), S.G.1H (hand control), S.G.3, S.G.3H, S.G.4H and S.G.4H/HS (the latter a "special" with the hydraulics modified to provide a facility for extra "slow" speeds..

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Manuals are available for Abwood Machine Tools

Abwood S.G.1A    Abwood S.G.3 & S.G.3.H   Abwood Tool Grinders   

Abwood Circular Dividing Machine    Abwood Vertical Milling Attachment

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Abwood Vertical Spindle Surface Grinders
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