Found this on craigslist the price was right and it was close enough for me to go pick up. It is in great condition very little use, the guy used this shaper and a small mill to build scale trains. Now I just need some hold down clamps and I will be up and running.
I removed the motor and stand for loading

Nice one!

nice size. that's going to be fun.

saweet! Did you get any tooling with it?

I like the size of that one. For some strange reason my dream machine. I would love to have one some day.

Thanks guys, and yes it is saweet FE, I tried to call you when I was in route so you could talk me out of buying it and going for the mill instead. They were a little high on the price for the mill so the shaper was my only option anyways. There was nothing else there that I could find that went to the shaper, tooling is just a tool holder and bit. I plan on ordering a clamping kit from Grizzly.
One odd thing about this machine is the lack off a name plate, the only marking I can find reads "A. E. 782" I did run it a little before I took it apart and it seems to function properly, the table does traverse as it should and it ran smooth.

I love shapers. I picked up a 10" Lewis last year. Doesn't see much use but I love to watch it run!

That looks like either an Atlas or south bend....probably Atlas.

I'm pretty sure its and Alba 1A. It have a 10" stroke?

Great score! It should serve you well.

Tooling for shapers is generally easily made, especially cutters!

I need to do some housekeeping and get some stuff out of the shop so I can get the shaper in place.
I will check the stroke next time I get in the shop, I think it is 10 inch

What a steal! Have a blast with it!

Good score. Really neat....

A short vedio of the shaper in action. It runs smooth I do not have it bolted down yet in this video.
https://plus.google....175009802804642

Lets see if I did this right