Brown & Sharpe taper milling arbors

[Jerry B]

I have an opportunity to buy a horizontal mill. It comes with 1 B&S tapered milling arbor of 1 inch diameter.

My question is: How easy are arbors of different diameters to come by? I checked ebay but saw nothing.

The mill is in excellent condition, power feed in both x and y axis with very little back lash and only a couple of table divets.
I can get it for $500 and the guy will even deliver it to me.

[John_Stevenson]

GO for it, rip his arm off.
Don't worry about an arbor. If it has one with it chances are you go can all the life of the machine with this one arbor.
It's nice on a smaller machine to have the choice of 5/8", 3/4" or 7/8" arbors but it's always possible to machine one up on a lathe.
Standard tooling on mills is 1" anyway.

John S.

[Rich_Carlstedt]

It's probably a # 9 B & S and they are available from companies like Wholesale Tool ( WT ) in Detroit , at least the last time I looked.

[FLPR@juno.com]

If you set up a favorite search on e-bay you can do it so they e-mail you when your item(s) come up. #9 B & S taper arbors do show up once in a while. I have a mill that uses them and I notice them when they show up. I don't try to buy any since I already have three.

[Preston]

Just sold a 1/2 BS taper arbor on e bay got $5.00 for it. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif"%20alt="[/img]