It followed me home

[RegionalChaos]

Nolano: Pretty much. I had to take a week off though. I'm not sure if I'll be out this week or not. The fiancee wants to go dancing in Portland... ( A man can only take hearing "We never go dancing anymore" for so long.. )

[primtechsmith]

I went to see my parents this weekend and my dad mentioned getting a new air compressor. So I offered hauling this one off for free. He actually said ok! Ha! So a 5hp compressor for free....Not too shabby.

Notice the ifi.com sticker on the back window of the ol' truck too! :-)

Peyton

[ApprenticeMan]

SWEET! OH YEAH!(Kool Aid)

[metalmaster1766]

Ed Thomas
thanks for the info on the belts, if in a pinch i may hafta try that, a good friend of mine has a belt splicer/stitcher, what ever its called, uses metal links to tie the ends together, and that machine isnt as beefy as it looks, im working on trying to get a bigger one, and an old lathe, i was a machinist for years, and hope to do part time machine shop work after the 1st of the year,
and yes, something about old machines i just love, after all, they used those to make most of the precision machines that started everything
ill hafta find a picture of my home built lathe to show ya's, guess i should post it in a different place tho

Ron

[Ed Thomas]

Ron,

The Practical Machinist board: Practical Machinist - manufacturing and machinist forum - home page has several forums, including one just for older machinery. Your mills would be welcome as pictures there. That board does not accept pictures directly. You have to post them somewhere on the internet and provide the link. Not difficult, but not quite obvious either. Since you already posted them here, you can link to the gallery from the machinist board.

I use hide glue for the belts. That way if I need to change the belt or remove it, I apply a heat gun for a few seconds and the belt separates easily with no damage. Everything is SOOO much quieter and smoother when I got away from the alligator clips. I still use those on the power hammer because the belt is wide and synthetic, and wouldn't fit in the mill. But I might glue that one someday also.

I'm not trained as a machinist, but have been learning a lot, sometimes out of necessity. I just made a roller bearing on my 1911 13" Southbend to fit my ???? (probably 1900 or earlier) Beaudry power hammer. To make steel wedges for fitting screens in a fireplace, I stuck 1" square bars in the vise of my 1943 Steptoe Shaper and and shaped them right up. The SB was free, and the 16" Steptoe (with auto downfeed and universal table) cost $100. I got a slotter (vertical shaper) for $250, and was "forced" to take a camel back drill press with it. A 1950 9J Gorton came for $600.... you get the idea. For less than the price of ONE power hammer, I have a fun and useful machine shop in which I can do just about everything I can imagine. Horizontal and vertical mills, shapers, and bandsaws, and two lathes.

I go to the Practical Machinist and read the threads there to learn how to use these tools, and I bought about a dozen older text books and other references for dirt cheap to learn how the older machines were intended to be used. None of these tools exactly followed me home, being pretty heavy and all.... but they were worth the effort to go get at prices that were irresistable.

I'd love to see your lathe pictures. Maybe start a new thread with that one?

[one_rod]

Originally Posted by metalmaster1766

these 2 small (and very old)horizontal milling machines followed me home last week, they both work and arent in to bad of condition, i just couldnt think of them going to the scrap yard, so they now reside in my shop, give me something to make some metal chips with till i can get the big milling machine here

Ron

Ron,

about the machine in the left hand photo; does that long lever on the front of the machine control the left/right (long axis) table feed, by a rack and pinion rather than a feed screw?

If it does, then what you have there is not a milling machine, as such, but a Clock Wheel Cutting Engine. An interesting piece of industrial history in it's own right.

Some horologist somewhere might be very interested in a machine like that. Is there any dividing or indexing gear still with it?


one_rod.

[metalmaster1766]

Ed Thomas, i put a picture of my lathe in the "Member Galleries" in the Metalmaster1766 album, if you do a search in the gallery, type in "homemade lathe" it will go to the picture, it is a Dave Gingery homemade bench lathe, i still havent finished it yet, still need to cast the tailstock and finish it.

One_rod, both of the machines have a rack gear feed on the table, no screw, the machine on the right has an air feed cylinder on it, and no they didnt come with any dividing or indexing gear, i can only wish they did

Ron

[Gary]

On a trip to Kansas (from Oregon) to visit my son-in-law's family I was followed home by a large Buffalo Forge, complete with working blower and arm and the one legged stand that attaches to the forge to hold extra long pieces in the forge. This belonged to his great grandfather as did the two large post vises I was given. The one on the left is 70+ lbs. the other is 90+.
Glad we took the trailer.

[Glenn]

I have converted your images and reposted them into your comments for you.

They were saved as bmp and should have been jpg format. For the images to be viewable, use 640x480 in size and in jpg format.

[FredlyFX]

A friend gave me this recently. It was dragged home by his brother years ago when a pier was being torn down somewhere. He said it has been sitting behind his moms garage for close to 20 years. It rings well and I think the top portion is solid, but the legs are hollow.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it actually. It weighs close to 300 lb, and is pretty flat on top, but it is too long to be useful in my shop. Currently it is just sitting in my storage area until the new shop is built some day and I have more room to move around.