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I do love a good clearing sale. Spotted a photo of a basket of horizontal milling cutters in the online catalogue for an auction that was on at a very bad time for me- in between 2 14-hour night shifts- but for my sleep deprivation I came away with enough cutters to make my Victoria U2 universal mill a much more useful thing to have around.
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There was another box with a couple of dozen more that was still in the back seat of the car when I took these photos, had forgotten about it. These are just the ones with a 1" keyed arbor hole suitable for my machine, there are a pile of others with different hole sizes / no keyway etc that will go to eBay. Quite a satisfactory haul.
Also picked up a 'project' bandsaw that was too cheap to let go.

Nice haul there Pete.

Wow!  and the obligatory
   
DaveH

I paid $250 for *one* a couple years back, rare as hen's teeth here.
Wow, what a pile.

A very nice haul Pete , you will be well tooled for HZ milling now   



Rob

Nice!

Ed

Yeah, what those guys said.

Nice haul, Pete. I got nearly that many when I bought my Victoria U2 a few years back. Those are very capable machines. Do you have the vertical head as well?

Hi Mike, yes I have the vertical head, the one with the fixed spindle. I have thus far only used it to cut a couple of keyways and only with the vertical head, as I haven't yet acquired all the components to set it up in horizontal mode. There were a few arbor spacers amongst this lot of cutters, but I still need more, and I don't have the bushings that run in the arbor supports. I'm also going to have to make a driveshaft for the power feed. All good fun of course. I've been contemplating the possibility of making a slotting head for it as well- don't hold your breath waiting to see that though.

It sounds like you have both arbor supports. Mine only has one, but that hasn't caused any problems.

The power feed shaft on mine may have been a built up one. It looks like a splined shaft with socket-set U-joints welded to the ends. Probably 1/2" drive.