Used Bourn & Koch Machines We Buy
MTE buys used Bourn & Koch CNC machines. Find your model and get a fast, no-obligation quote to sell it to us. Call 517-514-5190.
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How Selling Your Bourn & Koch Works
Tell us what you have
Use the form or call us with the model from the data plate (a 25H, a 400H or an HDS shaper, say), the year, the control and the condition. Tell us which hobs, cutters and fixtures go with it. We are a direct buyer, not a broker, and we have been buying machines since 2012.
Get a quote within 24-48 hours
We value your Bourn & Koch against current market data and usually come back with an offer within 24 to 48 hours. There is no pressure and no obligation.
We can arrange rigging, freight and pickup
Accept the offer and we can arrange the rigging, crating, freight and pickup, whether it is one hobber or a full gear department.
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- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 14-15 USED (1998)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 14-15 Year (1998)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 200H (2003)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 25H
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch HDS (2012)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 14-15 (1998)
- Metal CuttingBourn & Koch 22-15 (1998)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 22-15 USED (1998)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch 22-15 Year (1998)
- Metal CuttingBourn & Koch -25H (1972)
- Metal CuttingBourn & Koch HDS1600-300 (2012)
- CNC Gear MachineryBourn & Koch HDS1600-300 USED (2012)
- Metal CuttingBourn & Koch SUN
Who Makes Bourn & Koch Machines
Bourn & Koch, Inc. builds its machines in Rockford, Illinois. Larry Bourn and Loyd Koch, two engineers from Sundstrand Machine Tool, started the company in 1975 as a small machine tool rebuilder, with an emphasis on specialty machines, remanufacturing and retrofitting. In 1984 it bought the old Rockford Machine Tool building to make room to grow.
Today the company says its Rockford plant has over 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space, and that it specializes in gear manufacturing machinery, with a full line of gear hobbers and gear shapers. In 2019 Bourn & Koch became part of Precision Cutting Technologies (PCT), along with dti, Supermill and CID.
The Older Lines Bourn & Koch Supports
Much of Bourn & Koch's business rests on machine lines it bought. In its own words, it is "the OEM for a long list of legendary American-made machine tools such as Bullard, Fellows, Blanchard and Barber-Colman," and it says it has "over 2500 years of combined engineering in our print room from the 28 machine tool companies we are OEM for."
The gear side started in 1985, when, as its timeline puts it, Bourn & Koch "purchased the assets of Barber Colman Company, Machine Tool Division." It says it services "all makes and models of Barber-Colman, from 6-10 through 16-16 and many more," with rebuilds and retrofits at its Rockford plant. The table below lists the other lines its timeline names, by year.
Bourn & Koch's Timeline of Acquired Lines
The lines Bourn & Koch says it bought or built, in the order its About page lists them:
| Year | What Bourn & Koch says happened |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Larry Bourn and Loyd Koch open the company as a small machine tool rebuilder |
| 1985 | Buys the assets of Barber Colman Company, Machine Tool Division, and enters gear machines |
| 1998 | Buys the assets of Reed Chatwood |
| 2002 | Buys the assets of Roto-Technology, to complement its gear products |
| 2002 | Buys the assets of Fellows and of Jones & Lamson |
| 2004 | Buys the assets of DeVlieg-Bullard, with OEM rights to Blanchard, Mattison, Motch, Springfield and American Tool Works |
| 2011 | Develops the VBX modular platform: a gear shaper, vertical grinder and vertical turret lathe on common core components |
| 2014 | Acquires King Machine Tool, servicing King vertical turret lathes and boring mills |
| 2019 | Becomes part of Precision Cutting Technologies (PCT) |
| 2020 | Develops the MT3 vertical grinder |
From Bourn & Koch's About page, as of this writing. The list stops where that page stops.
Bourn & Koch's Current Lines
On its New Machine Tools pages, as of this writing, Bourn & Koch lists H-Series horizontal hobbers in four sizes, the 25H, 100H, 400H and 600H, for gears and spline shafts up to 600 mm in diameter. It says they can produce AGMA Class 10 gears and that the 400H is its most popular gear machine. Its gear shapers center on the Fellows 10-4, with machines up to 2550 mm capacity, and it adds the HDS 1600-300, a dual linear stroking gear shaper for herringbone gears and pinions.
Beyond gears, it builds new Blanchard surface grinders and Springfield vertical grinders, the VBX modular platform it developed in 2011 (the VBG vertical grinder for parts up to 2500 mm and the VBT turning center for parts up to 914 mm), the MT3 vertical grinder from 2020, and Mollart deep hole drilling machines.
Bourn & Koch Models on This Page
The Bourn & Koch machines listed on this page include the 25H, one of them filed as -25H; the 200H and the 200H Series II; the HDS and the HDS1600-300; the SUN; and six listings filed under two model numbers the maker's current pages do not name.
The 25H is one of the four H-Series sizes Bourn & Koch builds today. The 200H is not among those four sizes on the maker's pages today. The HDS1600-300 matches the HDS 1600-300 that Bourn & Koch offers as a dual linear stroking gear shaper. If yours has no clear plate, a photo of the plate and the control is enough for us to place it.
What We Look At on a Used Bourn & Koch
Bourn & Koch says each H-Series hobber is CNC-controlled with servo control on precision linear roller ways, hand-scraped bearing surfaces and ball screws, and that a conversational HMI guides the operator through hobbing. Wear on those ways and screws, and a working control, weigh heavily in the offer. Its 100H and 400H take Barber-Colman tooling on the work spindle, so list any Barber-Colman hobs, arbors or fixtures that go with yours.
Bourn & Koch also sells replacement parts, field service, and rebuilds and retrofits at its Rockford plant for any machine it has built. That is the route for a machine you plan to keep. For one you want gone, we buy it outright, and paperwork from a rebuild or control retrofit is worth sending with the details.
Sources for the Bourn & Koch facts on this page
- About, Bourn & Koch
- New Machine Tools, Bourn & Koch
- Gear Manufacturing Machines, Bourn & Koch
- Gear Hobbing Machines, Bourn & Koch
- OEM Repair Parts & Service, Bourn & Koch
- Barber-Colman OEM Gear Hobber Support, Bourn & Koch
- Barber-Colman Rebuild & Retrofit Services, Bourn & Koch
- Bourn & Koch OEM Parts, Service and Rebuild, Bourn & Koch
- Grinding Machines, Bourn & Koch
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Common questions
Do you buy used Bourn & Koch hobbers and shapers?
Yes. The Bourn & Koch machines in our listings are filed as the 25H, the 200H and 200H Series II, the HDS and the HDS1600-300, among others, and we buy them whether they are still cutting gears or have been taken out of production. Have the plate model, the serial number and the control ready (one of ours runs a Siemens 840D), along with the largest gear diameter and pitch it was set up for and the hob arbors, cutter adapters and work fixtures that go with it.
What if my Bourn & Koch was rebuilt or carries an older model number?
We still buy it. A machine Bourn & Koch remanufactured or retrofitted is quoted like any other, and so is one filed under an older number: six of the Bourn & Koch listings on this page carry 14-15 or 22-15 rather than a current H-series name. Tell us what the rebuild covered and roughly when, which control it was given, and whether the rebuild paperwork and any inspection charts stay with the machine, because a documented rebuild changes what we can offer.
Where are Bourn & Koch machines made?
In Rockford, Illinois. Bourn & Koch started there in 1975, and it says its Rockford plant has over 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space for building its CNC machine tools. A Bourn & Koch hobber or shaper from that plant is a machine we buy, running or idle.
What is the Bourn & Koch MT3?
The MT3 is a vertical grinder that Bourn & Koch developed in 2020. The maker says it combines vertical grinding, turning and milling on one machine platform, and the first one was built for Bourn & Koch's own machine shop. If you have one of its grinders or turning machines to sell, send us the model and year.
How big a part can a Bourn & Koch 25H hob?
Bourn & Koch says its 25H hobs shafts, gears and special parts up to 25 mm in diameter, with a pitch range of 1 module, and runs without hydraulics. It is the smallest of the four H-Series sizes, which run up to the 600H. When you sell a 25H, tell us what fixtures and hobs come with it.
Can a Bourn & Koch 400H replace a Barber-Colman hobber?
That is what Bourn & Koch designed it for. The maker says both its 100H and 400H are built to directly replace a Barber-Colman gear hobber, with a workspindle bolt pattern that lets a shop reuse its Barber-Colman tooling. The 400H takes gears up to 400 mm in diameter. If that tooling is going with your machine, list it, because it is part of what we price.
Thinking about selling Bourn & Koch Machines?
On a Bourn & Koch the model on the plate, from a 25H or 200H hobber to an HDS shaper, plus the year and the control, is what we need first. Send those and a few photos, including the tooling that goes with the machine, and Jason Puuri scopes it himself. Call 517-514-5190 or use the form.
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