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  1. Rock Crusher

    Beaver Pipe & Bolt Machine

    Surprised to see this thread pop back up. This last year I picked up another Pipe machine mostly because it was too cheap to leave behind and the scrap man was coming. This one a Toledo 999 with lots of die holders of a similar vintage to the Beaver that started the thread. Toledo acquired...
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    Small Heald rotary surface grinder

    Thanks Tyrone for confirming my suspicion that the table motor was spinning ass backwards. My spindle was spinning clockwise and would throw sparks at the catcher chute. The table on this little Heald was spinning counter clockwise. Together they would make a fair baseball or work pitching...
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    Small Heald rotary surface grinder

    The small size is part of the attraction for me and will likely make it far easier to sell if I tire of it. I will give the whole machine a thorough cleaning. I also need to remount the table drive motor and will probably modify the spindle drive to allow speed changes. The table motor is tucked...
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    Small Heald rotary surface grinder

    Thank you John. This swap meet is put on annually by an early engine group. Always some good stuff to be found there. You could very well be right on the age. The electric switches mounted up front are definitely from the 40's. I just am not so sure the motors and controls are original. I'll add...
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    Small Heald rotary surface grinder

    I picked up this little Heald rotary surface grinder at a local swap meet this weekend. Mostly out of curiosity as I've never been around one before. I've looked at all the info and pictures I can find and did turn up a similar machine sold at auction a while back and they called it a number...
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    New to me Van Norman 26

    Here are a couple pics of VN 26 feed motor plate. Mine is from the early 40's I believe and has an open frame motor. The feed motor is tucked in the machine base where the nameplate can't easlily be photographed. These two came out best. Also added one of the coolant motor and pump tags. Ed.
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    Calling all South Bend 11's

    A little more info on the South Bend series N 11" lathes from a brochure. Hope it shows up big enough to read. I was able to come up with a tailstock and drive covers for my series N model 1864-A so hoping to start in on it before too much longer. Ed.
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    FS Rivett Grinder

    Thanks for the heads up Bob. The old 104 still has a place in my shop for sure along with quite a few other projects, about half of them complete. I did get a PM requesting info on it....I've been immersed in a shop expansion project most of this year and not keeping up with the forum very well...
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    Restored 42' Hardinge TL

    It was a rainy day yesterday so I took some time off of my outside project to finish cleaning up the tooling and put the shelfs in the cabinet. I used edge glued pine for the shelf wood cut the top shelf back just a little in front so I don't have to bend down quite as far to see into the...
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    Government/Military Machine Ownership Tags

    Thanks for confirming the late 41' date Larry. I had not seen that particular dating chart from Hardinge. I used the attached chart which shows the same S/N dates. The BB4 does still have several of the 4c collets in the rack. My recently re-conditioned TL is S/N 18651 which puts it mid year...
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    Government/Military Machine Ownership Tags

    Here are a few pics of a little Hardinge BB4 with a defense dept. tag. Also the Los Alamos tag from where it apparently served in WW2. It is due for an overhaul but very complete including original drive. Doesn't seem to glow in the dark. Ed.
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    Restored 42' Hardinge TL

    Thanks for the response spaeth. Sounds like your TL is set up very much like mine. I've got a feeling plain plywood was what they came with for shelfs, at least in the early 40's. Had I just lost the belts I probably would have went with the link belt replacements also. Now that I've had the...
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    Restored 42' Hardinge TL

    Thanks rspeguin. I'm not sure if it was because Hardinge made this lathe after the start of WW2 or what but the castings were all left pretty rough. It took quite a bit of flap sanding and then I mostly used some Devcon for filler but a bit of JB and Bondo as well. Primer was a high build two...
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    Calling all South Bend 11's

    Thanks for the link to the TS Ron. I had seen that earlier and it seems like there was another one on there too for around $225 but it was quite a bit rougher as in the handwheel had been welded back on. Still at $350 + shipping a little steep for me right now. That's more than the whole lathe...
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    Calling all South Bend 11's

    Here are a few more pics of the under drive of my new 11"SB lathe. By the S/N, 52802, I think it works out to have been made in 32'. The motor data plate appears to have a date on it in the upper left corner as well. Ed.
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    Restored 42' Hardinge TL

    I do have one question about the cabinet storage shelfs. My lathe came with what may be original plywood shelfs but it also had cut out boards that would locate where items sit on the shelfs Chucks, tooling, and a few wrenches. The "shadow boards" look homemade to me but I wonder if anyone has...
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    Restored 42' Hardinge TL

    I've had this TL, S/N 18651, for quite a few years but was missing the entire original drive and have hoping one would turn up. A local machinist was parting out a DV59 this summer and I made a deal for the motor, shieves, countershaft, and controls. Not exactly the original single drum switch...
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    Calling all South Bend 11's

    I picked up this 11" x 4' South Bend underdrive lathe last week. S/N 52802. It had several components removed when I picked it up but for the most part what's there isn't in bad shape. It is missing the louvered drive covers and more importantly the tail stock. No steady or follow either. The...
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    1965 Wayne Air Compressor pressure switch

    Welcome to the forum Oologahan. I have quite a few ancestors buried not far from Oolagah in the Talala cemetery. Haven't been back in years now. Wayne was building compressors way back and quite a few are still running. Yours looks like it has plenty of life left with the simple fix of a new...
  20. Rock Crusher

    Trying to find out about an old saw... Stone Machinery Co.?

    Too bad its a direct drive saw. My recently acquired 20" Mercury chop saw is belt driven and was supplied from the manufacturer, OBear & Sons, with only a 3hp single phase motor. It has survived with that same motor for at least 50 years so it must have been adequate and does get a little torque...
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