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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 2015 12:48:10 -0400
Reply-To:     T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday - couple of recent tool acquisitions.
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <5269F1E1-1DFF-4283-8C73-5D4700AC7BC4@shaw.ca>
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Xenia Ohio,is not to far from Wilmington oh, the mecca of scirocco yearly GTG's.... Industrial in Xenia for sure! :)

t.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> In the last couple of weeks I've got a few interesting used tools that > maybe some list members will be interested in. I've posted pics of a couple > of them on my blog > > https://shufti.wordpress.com > > One is a very old metal shaper, R.A. Kelly of Xenia Ohio. Got for less > than scrap iron prices and it doesn't seem to be in too bad shape. Has flat > belt drive and someone sometime mounted a frame to the back side to mount > electric motor. > It is quite primitive compared to later shapers, but I bet it will cut > fine. My idea is to use it to cut internal key ways. > > The other tool is a dividing head, made in Poland. Nothing at all found in > the net for this machine except that the company is an arms makers. It does > seem like a very close copy of a Cincinnati dividing head. It doesn't have > the input shaft that would allow it to be coupled to the power feed of the > milling machine table ( if it did it would be able to cut helixes and cams) > but it does have the additional mechanism within the main dividing plate > that, I believe, increases the number of possible divisions to 400,000. > > I've already used the dividing head on a couple of jobs and it really, > really, cut down the machining time. > > This is all old school stuff, but still useful. The dividing head paid for > itself on the first job. > > Alistair >


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