My New Toy: Burke Powermatic Millrite

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Hey guys and gals,

I still have my Standard Modern 13X40 lathe in my shop, and am slowly working on it, but no new updates on that. But, I did acquire a 1975 Burke Powermatic Millrite this last weekend and will be working on restoring it as well. My time is limited due to my job taking up a lot of time, as well as 3 boys playing baseball. Hopefully I can make good progress on this mill and the SM lathe so I can get some eye candy up for everyone. But just to show some starting pic's here she is. I picked this mill up for a very good price and it was covered in dust and surface rust. I started to clean up the surface rust and found that the ways are not worn at all, the screws have zero wear as well, and all in all this thing looks like it wasn't used too much. It is the largest of the 3 table option at 8"X36", and it also has the extended knee which offers 13" of Y movement. It also has the fine feed for the quill(not my favorite aspect, but not a huge deal). It had the quill power feed, but someone removed the motor and controller(I've already purchased replacements...not original, but they will work wonderfully). It came with a full set of Chinese collets. It is an R-8 model, which is nice. I has a 1hp single phase motor, which works well for my small shop area. I will put a few pic's in my next post, when I get home from work(sorry for delay...my work doesn't allow photobucket).
 
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Congratulations! I am on my second Millrite. Good home shop machines. No pictures, it didn't happen...
 
Nice, looks like the forward, reverse stop switch is a stretch , would be for me anyhow. :cool:
 
Yeah, it's a reach for sure. May need to relocate it. I'm pretty tall, so it may be ok. We will see.
 
Another (powermattic) millerite owner here. I thought they were all green and had a racing stripe? Mine was 3 phase, so I mounted a vfd on they wall and operate it from there, bypass the factory switch altogether.

Yours looks to be the wider speed range version, very handy if you don't mind changing belts. Congrats!!
 
I have a Powermatic burke horizontal mill with the same size table. it is a good solid machine.
 
I'm probably going to see if I can hunt down a long shaft 3 phase motor and go the vfd route also, but for now the 110v motor will do. Here's some disassembly and cleaning pics.20160409_225305.jpg
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Please disregard my chaotic mess!

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