Rockford R27 drill press

[iagsxr]

There's an auction nearby me with a Rockford R27 drill press on it. 3/4" chuck, 1hp single-phase motor. I've already missed the viewing day and can't read the spindle speed chart from this picture. Does anyone know what the slowest two or three speeds are for this thing? Anything else you'd like to tell me about it would be ok too.

 

[The Cobbler]

no help, other than it has that Taiwan look to it, maybe find same models under different names

 

[nadogail]

Looks like the "made in Taiwan" drill press I have been using since 1978.

 

[RTM]

no help, other than it has that Taiwan look to it, maybe find same models under different names

Looks like the "made in Taiwan" drill press I have been using since 1978.

Maybe not originally

Rockford Machine Tool Co. - History | VintageMachinery.org

Looks like they were alive and kicking into 1962

Rockford Machine Tool Co. – RPL's Local History

Posts about Rockford Machine Tool Co. written by Andrew

history.rockfordpubliclibrary.org

Looks like 1982 was the end of the line for them, so maybe they did make it here.

Home -

Nor Service inc. was founded in October of 1982 by Neil Rouse. Mr. Rouse had been a dedicated employee of Rockford Machine Tool Company of Rockford, IL. for eleven years. As a skilled machine builder and service technician he was primarily involved in the building and servicing of Maplewood...

normaplewood.com

Someone is keeping the spirit in their old building in 1984, there page used to say they were the OEM source for RMT.

American Machine Tools by Bourn & Koch

American-Made Machine Tools since 1975. Bourn & Koch engineers, designs, and builds our machines in America. We provide Innovative Manufacturing Solutions.

www.bourn-koch.com

This claims it

Bourn & Koch | LinkedIn

Bourn & Koch | 2,066 followers on LinkedIn. Providing innovative solutions to the global manufacturing community since 1975. | Bourn & Koch, Inc. is an American machine tool manufacturer located in Rockford, Illinois. We specialize in gear manufacturing machinery and specialty machines. We are...

www.linkedin.com

About 50 patents assigned to them.

Google Patents

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patents.google.com

Some of their offerings

Machine Tools Made In America : National Machine Tool Builders Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

582 p., illus., 30.1 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

But no sign of a manual yet. Maybe more later

Machine Tools Made In America : National Machine Tool Builders Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

582 p., illus., 30.1 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

 

[BobnCO]

Thats some good research on RMT - Rockford Machine Tool was gone by the time that Drill Press was made. They never produced consumer tools. I have an interest in RMT as my grandfater was a master machinist there from the 1940'2 until his passsing in the late 60's. Have a few of his tools and his 10, 15 and 25 year pins.

 

[RTM]

I have an interest in RMT as my grandfater was a master machinist there from the 1940'2 until his passsing in the late 60's.

there were a few obits online of former employees found when I was searching. Don’t remember any names tho.