"The Davenport screw machine won World War II," Massimo Bonaldo said to me, as we ate kebabs in a rural village 40 minutes from the center of Hannover, where I was to attend the EMO Machine Tool Show the following day. Massimo is the technical manager of Tajmac-MTM S.p.A., the Italian headquarters of ZPS, one of Eur...

Graff-Pinkert just got in a Euroturn (ZPS, Mori-Say) 8-32 manufactured in 2001. It's a spindle stopper with feed and speed programable motors, Siemens simatic control, double feed-out, feed-in 4th and 8th position, stock reel and stand, and IEMCA PRA 52 F bundle loader. Please contact us for more information..

Graff-Pinkert has several excellent ACME GRIDLEY 1-5/8" RBN-8 machines in stock. The ACME 1-5/8" RBN-8 was the latest design ACME GRIDLEY produced for that size diameter. The machine's frame is the same as that of an ACME 1-1/4" RB-8 making it smaller than its predecessor model, the ACME 1-5/8" RB-8. It has a signif...

Graff-Pinkert's newest piece for sale is an Agathon 255 CL CNC Centerless Grinder, with Fanuc 6 axis 200 iB robot loading system, mfd. 2007. This machine is the crème de la crème of CNC Centerless Grinders and has only 100 hours of use. Purchased new today with the robot it would cost $750,000. Check our inventory f...

“What goes around, comes around.” It’s a dumb cliché, but it’s what I am seeing in the screw machine business today. The cyclicality of business is playing out as the auto industry in North America pushes toward the magical 16 million units a year mark. Thank god for the F-150, now the “best selling car or truck in ...

Multi-spindle screw machine plant closed in company consolidiation. Many machines with .001 end toolslide to stem readings! 1" to 4" capacity. 6- and 8-spindles. Well maintained, nicely tooled, priced to sell quickly!ACME-GRIDLEY1-5/8" RBN-8, Mfd. 1972, Snubbers, (2)(Call for pricing)1-5/8" RB-8, Mfd. 1952, ETS to S...

Tim Haendle was pleased with himself when I talked to him Wednesday. He had bought 100 carbide inserts – used of course – for a hundred bucks at a Hoff Online Auctions Internet sale of a screw machine shop in St. Paul, Minnesota. He’ll regrind them for use on one of the 22 National Acmes he runs in his shop, buried ...

I love the used machinery business because it is a competitive treasure hunt every day. It asks us for impossible calculations about realizable values for illiquid, flawed, sometimes rickety, filthy objects that often have little tangible worth when we are asked to buy them.Here’s an example of the type of situation...

In addition to CNC lathes, Hydromats and newer European multi-spindles such as Schutte, INDEX, and Euroturn, Graff-Pinkert historically has specialized in mechanical multi-spindles such as Wickmans, Acmes, and New Britains. The following is a basic guide to help you choose the best mechanical multi-spindle for your ...

I bought out my brother Jim’s interest in Graff-Pinkert six months ago. I promised him that I would not write about the breakup, but I want to take a few lines to describe how the post breakup is going for me.The day after our deal closed I was vacationing with my wife, my sister and brother-in-law at the Chautauqua...