Mysore Kirloskar?

[Marshall45]

Anyone any experience with these? This is badged as a Gate Sturditurn. Not sure if the model. Indian made but seem to have a good reputation..

 

[benmychree]

A guy that I worked for had one, this in the early 1970s; it was a well made machine, ran nice and was accurate. The only criticism I would level was that there was a wide gap between feed/thread ranges, if geared for normal feeding, only fine threads could be cut, if geared for reasonably coarse threads, the feeds were too coarse, the ratio between the two ranges (through two sets of change gears was 8:1 as I remember, but I re geared it to 4:1 so that I did not have to change ranges so often, but I had to think accordingly when choosing threads or feeds. It came with a bunch of change gears, including those for metric threading, although they were not for exact metric pitches, not being the 127/120 tooth counts.

 

[francist]

There are a dozen or so posts on the Mysore Kirloskar machines here on the forum — just enter “Mysore Kirloskar” without quotes into the search bar at top right of your screen and they should pop up. I didn’t enter anything for the “by member” category, just leave it blank.

 

[JimDawson]

I owned 3 of them, with the Enterprize badge, back in the '70s, pretty good machines. 14x40, 18x60, and 16x60. Never had any problems with them.

 

[Marshall45]

Great stuff, thanks guys!

 

[Cheeseking]

I know a guy that has one in his shop. He would probably be more than happy to give you his thoughts.
If you want PM me and I can get you his contact info.
One thing to consider is parts availability or lack of. Sounds like an Eastern European make.

 

[benmychree]

I know a guy that has one in his shop. He would probably be more than happy to give you his thoughts.
If you want PM me and I can get you his contact info.
One thing to consider is parts availability or lack of. Sounds like an Eastern European make.

Not so at all, made in India, a pretty decent machine, I ran one about 50 years ago.