I started a job at a non-profit machine shop…. Well it’s like a job, except for the “pay” part. All the money we take in goes towards the operation of the “Old Pueblo Transit Museum” (or towards new tooling for us!)
Anyway, it’s fun, I’m learning a lot, and I get to work on a lot of my own projects.
I know we have a bunch of good machinists on this forum, I thought people might want to post up their shops, or some of their products… (I know we have some current active projects going on now in different threads…)
Here’s our new Archdale radial arm drill press. It is an English “reverse lend-lease” item, payback for our support in WWII. It has an old “US Air Force” inventory tag . In the back is the biggest Do-All Bandsaw they make commercially… Both were donated to the museum, with all fixtures. Really good stuff. We paid for the shipping from the Solar Observatory (Sunspot) in Alamogordo, NM.
This is our massive lathe… it has a 24” chuck, and (I’m being serious, but I may be underestimating it), a 25’ long bed! The story is it’s German war reparations, made out of scrapped Panzer tanks! We are thinking of going in to business of making 16” gun barrels for battleship museums!
Lastly, I’m scraping the bed and the ways on my home Craftsman lathe. Scraping is an old school technique to transfer flatness from a standard (granite surface plate) to another surface (in this case, my lathe carriage).
Enjoy the pictures!
Rocky
