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So like you've seen a few times on here, I'm the fortunate recipient of a collection of machine tools.
Here's the quick version, I've been wanting to get a lathe and mill for years and was literally going to order one in the evening of a Friday a few weeks ago. My mom called and said, "I just told your aunt you ordered a Lathe and she says, "WHY?! He can have mine if he can move it.". Thankfully, I hadn't yet hit COMPLETE PURCHASE on the Precision Matthews site and called my aunt. She says, "you can have the lathe IF you take the Mill, too. The one other condition is that if we ever need a part made, you make it."
I haven't been able to move the machines yet, but I'm getting an Enco 12x37 Gap Bed Belt Driven Lathe built in 1989, model 110-2035 (similar to a Grizzly G9249) And a Clausing 8520 Knee Mill.
Score, right? They were my uncle's, who used them daily for many years until he passed 18 months ago, and took good care of his stuff.
So part of the deal is that I clear out all of the tooling that goes with them, a heavy burden (I know, poor me...), but one I'm will to concede to. Last Saturday, my cousin and I got together, first at his shop to take what he'd moved by accident and then to my aunt's to sort through the rest. 40 years of a guy that collected a lot of things, and bartered for lots and lots and lots of stuff.
I drive a 2004 Tahoe and by the time we said good enough for 1 day, the steering felt vague from all of the weight in the back of the truck.
Ok, so some of the stuff I knew what it was, some I didn't. But anything that might be able to be used for the Lathe and Mill my cousin pushed across the table and said take it.
Some highlights:
Metrology
Starrett:
-199 level
-98-8 level (broken glass vial)
-224 0-4" Micrometer Set
-C359 Angle Set
-120 Caliper - 12"
-Last Word Indicator Set
Brown and Sharpe Micrometer 0-1" No 8
Mitutoyo
-Depth Gauge Set
0-1" Digital Micrometer
Several other random indicators, bases, calipers, thread gauges, radius gauges, feelers, etc. Some Starret, some junk.
He literally had drawers of measurement tools on a cart that turned out be used as a shelf...
That was really a surface plate! It's about 24" square, and in need of some love, but still, kind of cool.
And several more things I probably haven't figured out yet.
Lathe Stuff
Quick Change Tool Post with 6 tool holders
2 Knurling tools, one with 3 sets on it, one with just a pair of rollers.
Several chucks (Two 3-Jaw and three 4-jaw) some ready for the 2 1/4-8TPI Spindle, others not.
Several Faceplates from about 4-10"
Lathe Dogs
Dead Centers
Live Centers
Boring bars
steady rest
Several Drill Chucks (including 2 nice Albrechts)
Box upon box of tooling, some brazed, some HSS, and some inserts and holders. Literally hundreds of pieces.
But my favorite piece of all from that very nice collection:
Holdridge Model 3D Radii Cutter Set in a cool wood case!
Mill Stuff
Collet Sets (5c and others?)
End mills (like 50 brand new 1/2" 4 Flute Double Sided End Mills and 100+ other random ones)
Ball End
Roughing
Radius
Keyway Cutters
Dove Tail
Center Drills
Reamers
Taps
Dies
Dividing Head
Swivel Base (but no Vise)
Clapping Set
Drill Stops
Transfer Punches
Misc
1/2 and 5/8" parallel tube expanders for making boilers
So from all that (and that's just off the top of my head), there is a ton of good stuff to get me started, but there are box upon boxes of random things I don't know what they are.
If you eye anything up in the pics that you want more or better pics of, let me know. I'm spreading it all out over severals tables in a warehouse at work to be able to take inventory and figure out what I need and what I don't. I really don't want to just keep stuff that my wife/kids will have to sort through in 40-50 years.
As I go through, I'll likely post specific items with closeups and questions to figure this all out.
What are these??
And these?
Top Right are what? Tapered inserts, kind of like collets?
1/2" 4 Flute End Mills!! A Whole Box of just those.
Here's the quick version, I've been wanting to get a lathe and mill for years and was literally going to order one in the evening of a Friday a few weeks ago. My mom called and said, "I just told your aunt you ordered a Lathe and she says, "WHY?! He can have mine if he can move it.". Thankfully, I hadn't yet hit COMPLETE PURCHASE on the Precision Matthews site and called my aunt. She says, "you can have the lathe IF you take the Mill, too. The one other condition is that if we ever need a part made, you make it."
I haven't been able to move the machines yet, but I'm getting an Enco 12x37 Gap Bed Belt Driven Lathe built in 1989, model 110-2035 (similar to a Grizzly G9249) And a Clausing 8520 Knee Mill.
Score, right? They were my uncle's, who used them daily for many years until he passed 18 months ago, and took good care of his stuff.
So part of the deal is that I clear out all of the tooling that goes with them, a heavy burden (I know, poor me...), but one I'm will to concede to. Last Saturday, my cousin and I got together, first at his shop to take what he'd moved by accident and then to my aunt's to sort through the rest. 40 years of a guy that collected a lot of things, and bartered for lots and lots and lots of stuff.
I drive a 2004 Tahoe and by the time we said good enough for 1 day, the steering felt vague from all of the weight in the back of the truck.
Ok, so some of the stuff I knew what it was, some I didn't. But anything that might be able to be used for the Lathe and Mill my cousin pushed across the table and said take it.
Some highlights:
Metrology
Starrett:
-199 level
-98-8 level (broken glass vial)
-224 0-4" Micrometer Set
-C359 Angle Set
-120 Caliper - 12"
-Last Word Indicator Set
Brown and Sharpe Micrometer 0-1" No 8
Mitutoyo
-Depth Gauge Set
0-1" Digital Micrometer
Several other random indicators, bases, calipers, thread gauges, radius gauges, feelers, etc. Some Starret, some junk.
He literally had drawers of measurement tools on a cart that turned out be used as a shelf...
That was really a surface plate! It's about 24" square, and in need of some love, but still, kind of cool.
And several more things I probably haven't figured out yet.
Lathe Stuff
Quick Change Tool Post with 6 tool holders
2 Knurling tools, one with 3 sets on it, one with just a pair of rollers.
Several chucks (Two 3-Jaw and three 4-jaw) some ready for the 2 1/4-8TPI Spindle, others not.
Several Faceplates from about 4-10"
Lathe Dogs
Dead Centers
Live Centers
Boring bars
steady rest
Several Drill Chucks (including 2 nice Albrechts)
Box upon box of tooling, some brazed, some HSS, and some inserts and holders. Literally hundreds of pieces.
But my favorite piece of all from that very nice collection:
Holdridge Model 3D Radii Cutter Set in a cool wood case!
Mill Stuff
Collet Sets (5c and others?)
End mills (like 50 brand new 1/2" 4 Flute Double Sided End Mills and 100+ other random ones)
Ball End
Roughing
Radius
Keyway Cutters
Dove Tail
Center Drills
Reamers
Taps
Dies
Dividing Head
Swivel Base (but no Vise)
Clapping Set
Drill Stops
Transfer Punches
Misc
1/2 and 5/8" parallel tube expanders for making boilers
So from all that (and that's just off the top of my head), there is a ton of good stuff to get me started, but there are box upon boxes of random things I don't know what they are.
If you eye anything up in the pics that you want more or better pics of, let me know. I'm spreading it all out over severals tables in a warehouse at work to be able to take inventory and figure out what I need and what I don't. I really don't want to just keep stuff that my wife/kids will have to sort through in 40-50 years.
As I go through, I'll likely post specific items with closeups and questions to figure this all out.
What are these??
And these?
Top Right are what? Tapered inserts, kind of like collets?
1/2" 4 Flute End Mills!! A Whole Box of just those.