mikalius
25th Jan 2019, 11:14 PM
Hello everyone, I'm Mike and I've only been into machining for a few years now, but it's very quickly consuming both my free time and money! I've gone from musician to recording engineer to carpenter, to healthcare IT guy, back to general contractor through the years. Now all of a sudden I wish I had had some exposure to machining earlier; I suspect I would have made a good tool/die maker.
I've gotten my hands on a cheap Chinese mini lathe (which is how I caught the bug), then a 1958 Bridgeport mill (which I got for free somehow), a 11x40 Logan lathe from 1960, and most recently a 1928 Brown & Sharpe #2 surface grinder which is in need of some love.
I've also been lucky enough to volunteer at a 1910-era line shaft machine shop nearby; the crew there is a wealth of knowledge and experience and seeing the old machines working like new is a testament to how over-built most of that stuff was.
I found this forum looking for reference material for the B&B grinder and caught a thread by Stray Alien over at Practical Machinist which lead me here to his monster thread on his #2 rebuild.
I suspect I'll be starting a thread to compliment Greg's; mine wasn't a box of rusty parts, so it probably won't be nearly as exciting.
Mike
I've gotten my hands on a cheap Chinese mini lathe (which is how I caught the bug), then a 1958 Bridgeport mill (which I got for free somehow), a 11x40 Logan lathe from 1960, and most recently a 1928 Brown & Sharpe #2 surface grinder which is in need of some love.
I've also been lucky enough to volunteer at a 1910-era line shaft machine shop nearby; the crew there is a wealth of knowledge and experience and seeing the old machines working like new is a testament to how over-built most of that stuff was.
I found this forum looking for reference material for the B&B grinder and caught a thread by Stray Alien over at Practical Machinist which lead me here to his monster thread on his #2 rebuild.
I suspect I'll be starting a thread to compliment Greg's; mine wasn't a box of rusty parts, so it probably won't be nearly as exciting.
Mike