sfriedberg
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2010
- Location
- Oregon, USA
He did not, except for a drawing submitted by a user of the VN "C" collet.I don't know if he had anything like blueprints on there
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He did not, except for a drawing submitted by a user of the VN "C" collet.I don't know if he had anything like blueprints on there
I'm wondering if Atlantic acquired VN from Gulf and Western or whether G&W acquired Atlantic along with VN and then Atlantic just built the mills. Pretty sure G&W got bought by Textron but I don't know when. Haven't had time to research it yet. I already found that Myron Bowling auction and downloaded pictures of the VN machines. So did RPI acquire the VN tech specs from Atlantic or Textron? Just thinking out loud here, I'll eventually look into it.I assume RPI acquired Van Norman from Atlantic as they also did rebuilds of Atlantic Jig Bore machines. The RPI auction was July 2015.
The Kasunich website is a well know resource to the few VN collectors for looking up serials. Good idea about using Wayback to perform searches.That "Wayback Machine" website is a wonder. I was browsing through the Wikipedia and one of the references on the article was to a website belonging to a fellow called John M. Kasunich. It is no longer in service but the archive software saved this part of his website on the Van Norman machines: https://web.archive.org/web/20160320155341/http://jmkasunich.com/vannorman/VN_Home.htm
I don't know if he had anything like blueprints on there, but there is some technical data from a range of the machines that they produced.
That "Wayback Machine" website is a wonder. I was browsing through the Wikipedia and one of the references on the article was to a website belonging to a fellow called John M. Kasunich. It is no longer in service but the archive software saved this part of his website on the Van Norman machines: https://web.archive.org/web/20160320155341/http://jmkasunich.com/vannorman/VN_Home.htm
I don't know if he had anything like blueprints on there, but there is some technical data from a range of the machines that they produced.
Thanks for contributing this informationWe have a press where I work that has two tags riveted on the frame. The top one says "Van Norman Machine Company, Division of Universal American Corp. Springfield 7, Mass. U.S.A. Manufactured By" and on a seperate tag underneath it says "F. A. Nugier Co.,6374 Arizona Circle, Los Angeles 45, Calif. Model H80 14, Capacity 80 Tons, Serial Number VN1147"
Obviously built by Nugier and marketed by Van Norman. Even has Van Norman orange paint. No date on it but before ZIP codes were used so maybe 50's or very early 60's ? Also has VN serial number so clearly built for Van Norman. Don't know if anyone has mentioned presses before but I figured I would share it as part of Van Norman history.
I have a 1R3, it has the same (lower) data tag, only its spelled out Ex-Cell-O.Maybe there was a link between Excello and Atlantic? There's a 1R3 on eBay right now with these tags on the side... the "XLO" might imply a connection to the Excello Corp.
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Hi. That would be me. That website was hosted on a computer in my basement. When the computer died so did the site. I think the hard disk might still be OK. I should attempt to retrieve all the site data and figure out a new home for it. Maybe in my plentiful spare time (ha ha). I'm hoping to retire in another year or two, I'll try to get to it eventually.That "Wayback Machine" website is a wonder. I was browsing through the Wikipedia and one of the references on the article was to a website belonging to a fellow called John M. Kasunich. It is no longer in service but the archive software saved this part of his website on the Van Norman machines: https://web.archive.org/web/20160320155341/http://jmkasunich.com/vannorman/VN_Home.htm
I don't know if he had anything like blueprints on there, but there is some technical data from a range of the machines that they produced.
I just looked at the wayback machine's snapshot of my site, and they have everything. Simplest way to bring it back to life would be to just copy it from the wayback machine. As copyright holder on the original site, I hereby give permission to anyone who wants to publicly host the site to copy as needed. Please leave my original copyright notice at the bottom of each page, but feel free to take credit for the hosting and/or modify the pages as necessary, adding yourself to the copyright notice.John, I would be quite happy to rehost your data if/when you get around to checking the old disk.
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