It does not look rigid enough to use for milling, if that is why you are considering an xy table.

But could be handy if you had large numbers of holes to drill and tap etc. Otherwise, hard to see any great advantage over a regular drill press.

Tis pretty neat though.

I have seen one before, but cannot remember where, one of the frustrations of getting old.

Burgmaster went under in 1986. There is a history of the company on line if you do a bit of light Googling. Not seen a Spanish copy before, though the online history says that Burgmaster did a licencing arrangement with Yamasaki (Mazak) that seemed to hasten their demise.

There was a UK importer / agent. I can't recall the company name, but did work with them around 1983/84, when my previous employer worked with them to make one into a CNC drilling machine. They did the mechanical mods (ballscrew to replace the star handle feed & an X-Y table, all mounted on a fabricated base. We supplied the electrics & a Heidenhain TNC131 point-to-point control. The machine went to a pneumatic valve manufacturer in southern Scotland. IIRC there was talk of doing another, but it didn't come to anything. On the original machine the turret index was achieved by driving the head assembly upwards until a fixed bar on the frame depressed a lever on the head. This diverted the motor power to an index mechanism to rotate the head one station. On the CNC version the head was retracted to theZ axis reference position & an M-code controlled solenoid pressed the index device on the head. There was no turret position feedback, so the programmer had to keep track of where the turret was & add a number of M-code calls at the end of the program to skip through un-used stations to return the first tool to position.

Nigel B

Hello

I can offer you help

Haley@burgmaster.co.uk

1986.started that dates me !!!

U got the masana as a burg replacement . But later we had the shangnong as spares replacement

For

Limited parts ..but scrapped all when other director passed away

Some years past now

But saying all this not heard from my supplier in Taiwan for some 5 years now. ..they metric and mod to inch..

Springs still got

All for now

PS

NEVER Remove spring without guidance

I forget the make but recall using a very similar machine many years ago at work, for drilling a matrix of some hundred tiny holes in each one of batches of plates for vacuum-tables on screen-printing machines.

The plates were not tapped though I think the machine had a tapping function or small tapping-head. They were though counter-drilled from the underside for perhaps three-quarter depth, to reduce air-flow loss. We did not use a co-ordinate table but drill-jigs probably made on a milling-machine, and fitted with lots and lots of hardened drill-bushes.

These are neat and effective machines, and best used with simple co-ordinate tables, jigs or jig-setting.