Vintage, benchtop, horizontal
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This is a mid to late thirties Pratt and Whitney #3, with a Craftsman shaper countershaft. I found this on FBM, and was the first person to say "I will take it with cash money." Apparently, there were a lot of other people, to which the seller said he should have asked more than the $500, but he held his price, and loaded it for me! I has taken some time to get it cleaned up, collets found (it takes 3pn, which is the only machine that does) and I just got the new motor wired in last week. The plan is too make a Marvin for it eventually, but right now I have a Logan Montgomery Wards lathe to put back together.
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great save. i would love a benchtop mill.
That's a great project. Love the older vintage tool saves. Great Job!!!
Here she is after loading in the back of my truck
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Now at home, stashed in the garage
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Name plate
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I had to disassemble her to get it down in the basement shop, and to get rid of that brush paint green
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The deal only came with one of the many accessories, the dividing head. But not the spindle. It did come with a random dividing head that definitely was not part of the machine, and is just as much of a Chinese puzzle as the mill itself. Which, by the way, is the best machined piece of equipment I have ever had my hands on. I have finished the light restoration, and it is now in my shop, powered by a Kingston Conley 1/3hp motor. I had to spend a fortune on collets, but I know have standard sizes up to 1/2" and most wire sizes.
Hey, any progress to report on this?
The mill is mostly done, just a few tweaks needed to get it up to speed fully: I need to replace the glass in one of the oilers, build a better stand for the counter shaft, and one of the dials isn't assembled right, I don't think.
But I am mostly working on the Montgomery Wards/Logan, as I need to move big projects along to reclaim some space in my tiny shop. I do need to update that thread, but pictures of scraping old paint aren't too thrilling. I should get some up anyway.
I get needing to get big projects finished to reclaim space in a small shop