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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    .... does yours have the beautiful checkered scraping ......BT
    Afraid not - looks like mine has seen harder times, in fact it's overdue for a strip & refit but having just moved house that is way down on the list.

    Jordan - I shimmed the gooseneck when cutting the brass gears for a geometric chuck. Can't remember why - but then that's what happens when you get old! - should have made a note.....
    Mark
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    Well I just couldn't let this thread go without putting a few pics of my old girl in..
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    Hey Matt,

    The handwheel on the countershaft looks useful.
    I like the unusual aerial view.

    Jordan

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    Cool

    Here is my South Bend 7" the early version without the oil pump in the base. Prob early 50's. Looked for one that was reasonable for years and found this one 3 blocks from my house sitting under a tarp in a guys auto body shop. He got it with some other machines and didn't want it so i got it cheap 300 bucks. Just needed a stand 2 new belts and some cleaning up...Bob
    http://s110.photobucket.com/albums/n...=shaper004.mp4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    Hello Phil,

    Can you shed some light on the non standard table to floor support? Mine has, to me, the inadequate single column support, mounted on the cast tray.

    Bob.
    Hi Bob,
    Like you I had the single column support which is next to useless. When I got it it had what was left of a piece of 1" all-thread which the previous owner cut off with a 9" angle grinder. The single support worked well until you used the cross traverse as you know. I decided to build my own making sure the uprighit column could touch the floor but be attached to the base and also be supported by the tray. As the load is vertical the work table just needed a shelf to sit on so I used some 40 x 40 x 5 angle iron which I possibly should have gusseted but didn't reckon getting loads big enough to cause any problems. So far so good. The set-up so far has worked extremely well with some cuts I consider to be on the poor little douglas' limit.
    If you need anymore info or material sizes I would be happy to go and measure up for you.

    Phil

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    Thank you Phil. I will have a close look at my 10 and see how I could achieve a similar solution.

    And here it is, complete with kinky rubber apron and chook cage . Another useless feature on mine was the 1/2" BSW down feed screw. I dealt with that here - http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/do...ations-129407/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anorak Bob View Post
    Thank you Phil. I will have a close look at my 10 and see how I could achieve a similar solution.

    And here it is, complete with kinky rubber apron and chook cage . Another useless feature on mine was the 1/2" BSW down feed screw. I dealt with that here - http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/do...ations-129407/

    Hi Bob,
    I think my chook cage is hanging on the wall. It makes you wonder what they were thinking when they put the 1/2" Whit. Downfeed screw in. I should do that modification to mine.

    Phil

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    Default Somthing else to accessorise with

    Seeing Bob's rubber apron, you might be interested in this.
    Because the tool is always along the same linear path relative to the floor, I made this out of scraps of sheet metal

    Attachment 194556

    (Actually, another reason was that since learning how to lay out a transition piece in drawing classes, I always wanted to make one. It's taken decades, but it works!)
    The chips hit the scoop and then funnel down into the fruit juice tin down the bottom. Makes the clean up that much easier.

    Attachment 194557

    In position it's roughly centred on the tool path.

    Attachment 194558

    Michael

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    Nice Michael. Something I have thought about and been too lazy to pursue.

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    May I drool??

    All very nice gear guys

    I noticed no one asked what a Geometric chuck is. Mark I found yours the other day was going to e-mail you about it excellent work.

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    This is a Cincinnati 24" standard. I attached one of those inexpensive 24" Dro electronic scales under the cross axis feed direction since these pics were taken. It has a small display with a magnet on the back and I stuck it in front of the cross feed crank handle.










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    Those are beautiful looking machines, although I am deeply suspicious whether they ever get used for anything in such a clean and spacious environment. Admit it - you're the front man for a museum!

    (Suspicion fuelled mainly by envy...)

    Michael

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael G View Post
    Those are beautiful looking machines, although I am deeply suspicious whether they ever get used for anything in such a clean and spacious environment. Admit it - you're the front man for a museum!

    (Suspicion fuelled mainly by envy...)

    Michael
    Michael,

    Have a look at post no.11 in this old thread. -

    http://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/ci...ochure-136933/

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    Here is my little 24 inch Alba
    It has 6 speeds and clutch. It came with tooling as well as a lot of boring bars for cutting splines internal key ways etc..It had been kept inside a shed and only moved outside for pick up.


    And it's 15 inch vice I picked up


    This is my 10 1/2 inch Douglas (clutch model). At the moment it is in a pieces getting a good clean up after using it as a surface grinder.It came with a heap of spares like ram, clapper, motor/motor mount, pulleys,lead screw, bull gear, etc.
    I am using a milling vice, but I am still looking for a Douglas vice if anyone knows of one.


    The Alba has a bit of wear, but the Douglas has only just been run in by the looks of it. I wish it was the other way around because I could fit the Douglas in the Alba if it needed cleaning up.

    Dave

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael G View Post
    Those are beautiful looking machines, although I am deeply suspicious whether they ever get used for anything in such a clean and spacious environment. Admit it - you're the front man for a museum!

    (Suspicion fuelled mainly by envy...)

    Michael
    Thanks Michael!, Recently I built this new shop with more room. Mostly I use the machines to prototype ideas. After figured out they go to production in another shop. I enjoy the old machines. I added a dro a few months back to that Cincinnati #3 vertical mill and also the dro to the cross feed of the shaper. That helped accuracy of keeping track where I'm at with the shaper.

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