New early 1900's Cincinnati Shaper Project

Making some progress on the cleanup.

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Thats going to be a nice machine Ben. With the amount of information out there on the web its amazing the holes that exist. I have an 18 inch Peerless that was made in Ontario not sure when. Have searched and found a few other people that have them but no information about them. There was a company by the same name that made powered hacksaws in the states but no affiliation.
On the bars my first thought is that they should be made of cast iron. I'd be afraid steel would gall. You can get continuous cast bar stock. Durabar is one company that makes it.
Mine has an oiler between each of the hold down bolts.
Hope you post your rebuild.
Greg


Any idea on the tensile strength needed on the material? I was thinking that 65k would be fine. I am having a heck of a time finding this stuff locally.

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That would be great benmychree if I could find it. It seems dura-bar is my option around here and even that is hard to find and very expensive. The two quotes I have gotten so far are more then I paid for the machine. Not sure what I am going to do now.
 
Wonder if you could salvage them out of an old lathe bed. Nothing else comes to mind that would be long enough. Maybe you could use thin strips of cast as wear bars with a steel cap to support them.

Greg
 
The best option I can think off is to approach an iron foundry, and see if they will cast you a couple of bars, Ordinary soft grey iron is typically good machine tool gib strip material, May the fleas of a thousand camels infect the rear end of the idiot who took off the original gib strips, Remember to allow for machining allowance, (On the Bars not the idiots rear end!)
 
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