The perks of running a machine shop Museum

[DiscoDan]

One of the perks of running a machine shop museum ( at Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Association) is getting to go look at items for possible donation. Today was one of those days. The most interesting item is a Potter and Johnson 15 inch shaper. It has automatic down feed and a universal table. The second item was a covel surface grinder but it has quite a bit of wear. The third item is a Hilles & Jones sheet metal roller that will do a piece of sheet metal about 5-1/2 eet wide. This thing was a beast. Notice the wooden handles on the turning end.

Already spoken for was his huge ass power hammer.

The worst part about this donation is that it's in a rural area and the dirt road leading to the house and workshop could best be described as a billy goat trail. Getting a truck and trailer in there is going to be a chore.

 

[NCjeeper]

Some cool stuff there.

 

[DiscoDan]

This was my fun today. Yesterday at Tuckahoe we were moving machinery out of one of our storage containers in order to pull out a New Haven planer and a KO Lee tool and cutter grinder that we had in storage that one of our members was buying. Here are a couple pictures

 

[brino]

Here are a couple pictures

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[DiscoDan]

Technical dicficulty!

 

[NCjeeper]

Man sweet old G&E.

 

[Braeden P]

That’s a nice planer!

 

[C-Bag]

All cool stuff! I would love to see some closeups of the auto down feed on the P&J shaper. How did it work?

 

[DiscoDan]

I've only got a few pics of the head area and I believe there's some pieces missing from the down feed mechanism. The ram lock handle is also missing. But that wouldn't stop us from taking it.

 

[C-Bag]

Thanks. yeah, it's tough to know if there's something missing or not. A lot of the bigger shapers with downfeed the mechanism seems all internal and I have no idea how they work. I did see one recently that had a downfeed with an external mechanism and good pic's of it.