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Intended to compete with the ever-popular Bridgeport Series 1, several versions of the Milmor turret milling machine were offered, all with overlapping specifications and various changes during their lifetime. However, one common feature was that all used a V-belt drive head, with backgear, to give a useful range of both slow and fast speeds. The most expensive model - the Milmor - was introduced in 1965, but by late in the decade was being referred to as the  Milmor Super 16 when equipped with sixteen spindle speeds - or as the otherwise identical Standard 8 when fitted with eight. The table was a useful 50" x 10.25" (1270 mm x 260 mm ) with the saddle to knee ways being of the robust square type. On these versions some of the electrical switchgear was built into the front of the head - the early standard Milmor having a single switch and later models two, side by side.
The other types were also named according to the number of their spindle speeds and included the
Milmor 10 and Milmor Super 10 with these versions having ordinary dovetail and not "square" ways on the saddle. The ordinary ten made do with a slightly shorter 45" x 10.5" (1140 mm x 265 mm) table, a 3 h.p. motor, single-speed motor (with controls moved from the head to the left-hand face of the column) and speeds from 70 to 3000 r.p.m. on the 10. Living up to its name, the Super 10 had a full-size, 50-inch table and one certain recognition point, the table feed motor was flange mounted to the left-hand face of the knee (all other variants of the machine having theirs on the right, underneath the table end). In fact, the Super 10 was constructed using the base of the very different "SturdiMill 1100" and fitted with the head assembly from a Rambaudi miller (and sometimes from another machine imported by the agents).
Details of the vertical heads also differed model to model and, to confuse matters further, some examples were fitted with heads from other machines imported by the distributors.
A version fitted with an early NC control, system was also sold: the
Milmor-Matic.
The
Milmore is easily confused with the Sturdi-Omnimil range and, if you would like a manual for any one of these millers, it's best to email several clear photographs from each side and the centre..

Milmor turret milling machine, later to be catalogued as the Super 16: this early version can be identified by: 16 spindle speeds; a single switch on the front of the motor (contained in a protruding square box); square ways on the knee; a ram that tapered towards the rear and the fine down-feed handwheel fitted to the left-hand side of the head's front face.

Milmor Super 10: This model can be recognised by its 10 spindle speeds; a ram with parallel top and bottom surfaces, V-way for the saddle; no switch on the front of the head; electrical controls (usually) on the left-hand face of the column and the fine down-feed handwheel on the right-hand side of the head's front face. One other notable point was the flange mounted table-feeds motor on the left-hand face of the knee. In fact, the Super 10 was constructed using the base of the very different "Sturdimill 1100 and 1000R" and fitted with the head assembly from a Rambaudi miller (and sometimes from another machine imported by the agents).

Milmor Super 10. Note the flange-mounted table-feeds motor on the left-hand face of the knee

Milmor 10. This lighter model had 10 spindle speeds; a ram with parallel top and bottom faces; no switch on the front of the head; electrical controls (usually) on the left-hand face of the column and the fine down-feed handwheel to the right of the head's front face.



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