jd99
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My Machine shop partner and i are thinking about adding one of these to our inventory.
How many pen parts do ya need made. :biggrin:
How many pen parts do ya need made. :biggrin:
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Justturnin
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......looks like a Decptacon.
What in the world is it.
What in the world is it.
Haynie
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What the heck is that thing?
glycerine
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It's a bread slicer!
cwolfs69
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thats a lot of machinery just to open a can of cola
We need clips, click mechanisms, and better transmissions. All for under a Dollar and in 6 different finishes and to fit every style. That should just about do it for starters
InvisibleMan
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Model rocket launching pad.
jd99
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It's a screw machine, my partner is the one that can make it sing, my speciality was four slide machines, before I switched to tool making.
This was back before the computer would control everything, we had to rely on cams and stuff like that.
Remember the old typewriters and what would happen when ya pressed a bunch of keys at the same time? Thats what happens to one of these if ya don't get the cams and cam timing set right.
This was back before the computer would control everything, we had to rely on cams and stuff like that.
Remember the old typewriters and what would happen when ya pressed a bunch of keys at the same time? Thats what happens to one of these if ya don't get the cams and cam timing set right.
bitshird
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Punch tape was bad enough, setting Cams and timing is SO Critical. do like Constant from Lazerlinez did by a 7 Yes Seven Axis Swiss Screw machine, I've done my fair share of CNC Programing, 3 and 4 axis,lathe, mill and Centerless and OD grinders!! but My Word!! Maybe indexing the cams and stuff might not be all that bad
jd99
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We don't have enough cash to lay out for a machine like that wish we did but not now..Punch tape was bad enough, setting Cams and timing is SO Critical. do like Constant from Lazerlinez did by a 7 Yes Seven Axis Swiss Screw machine, I've done my fair share of CNC Programing, 3 and 4 axis,lathe, mill and Centerless and OD grinders!! but My Word!! Maybe indexing the cams and stuff might not be all that bad
We are both retired from the machining industry, but had a chance to buy a shop from a guy, and had a couple of customers to boot, so my buddy works the shop about 6 hours a day and I come in on weekends and do the tooling and jobshop stuff. its not a full time venture for either of us; but it's more then self supporting right now.
He has a customer that needs parts, and we can pick up one of the old cam machines for around 2K or less. so it might be something we get.
Gives us a place to go and the wife's arent there. :biggrin:
Justturnin
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We don't have enough cash to lay out for a machine like that wish we did but not now..
We are both retired from the machining industry, but had a chance to buy a shop from a guy, and had a couple of customers to boot, so my buddy works the shop about 6 hours a day and I come in on weekends and do the tooling and jobshop stuff. its not a full time venture for either of us; but it's more then self supporting right now.
He has a customer that needs parts, and we can pick up one of the old cam machines for around 2K or less. so it might be something we get.
Gives us a place to go and the wife's arent there. :biggrin:
Dang if I was close I would volunteer just to learn.
Gin N' Tonic
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I love those old cammers! I work daily with hobbers that were made in the 40's and 50's and can still cut gears to Q14 Agma Standards. I also run a conical bevel generator that was made in 1947. We have a cnc machining center, a cnc hobber and a cnc shaper, cnc lathe and 3 cnc millers but for small run jobs it's really tough to beat the old manuals.
ctubbs
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I find the old machines fascinating. Years back, I worked in a small town paper and the owner found a barge load of Line-O-Types sunk in the Mississippi near here. We did salvage on the machines and rebuilt them all. That was a great learning time for me as a young mechanic. Hard to beat the old machines at what they were designed to do.
Charles
Charles
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Charles,
Age 15 yrs I was going to be apprenticed as a Printing Engineer and in the huge Printing place where I worked those Linotype Machines scared the living daylights out of me when they got a squirt as they called it the machine heart filled up with molten lead, this in the 1950,s and the fact I was a heavy smoker and all smoking had to take place in the Gents Toilet, the building was always in Lockdown for Security convinced me to head out after six months.
Jd following your workshop experiences with interest.
Kind regards Peter.
Age 15 yrs I was going to be apprenticed as a Printing Engineer and in the huge Printing place where I worked those Linotype Machines scared the living daylights out of me when they got a squirt as they called it the machine heart filled up with molten lead, this in the 1950,s and the fact I was a heavy smoker and all smoking had to take place in the Gents Toilet, the building was always in Lockdown for Security convinced me to head out after six months.
Jd following your workshop experiences with interest.
Kind regards Peter.