another cool element! Maybe link it to the motor and fire it up for Sunday dinner bell!
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another cool element! Maybe link it to the motor and fire it up for Sunday dinner bell!
Good stuff Mike.................good stuff!
Great bell Mike and great thread.:):) Love seeing the old stuff.;):)
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Over the last couple of months I've had to replace both my phone and computer. I hate the learning curve of messing with new electronic stuff but I did get some new editing software and have been playing with it a bit. Figured I post a new video of the lineshaft and can crusher I put together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JxFYy7-0A
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Mike that was fantastic, and loved the dueling banjos too! Now you need to build a log cabin work shop and put all the line pulley tools in it to get the total Ambiance going! P.S. The can crushing was awesome!!!!!!! :)
Great video and a super project Mike!!! Very well done!
Mike, great work! I love watching those waterloo boys do work. Nice enginuity on the makings of this project!
A lot of the old lineshafts often had a large washer or two on them to help keep the shaft polished. The other day I noticed that the line shaft was starting to get a coating of rust so I figured why not. I didn’t have any big washers around, but I had saved some steels from an old posi unit and they seem do the trick.
Technically they're call shaft wipe rings, but I've often heard them referred to as shaft mice.
I don’t know if I run the lineshaft enough to keep it polished, but it’s amusing to watch.
lineshaft shaft mice - YouTube
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That's actually pretty to watch!
I've seen lengths of leather tied around shafting to produce the same effect; keeping the rust off them.
The advantage with the leather was that after initially soaking it for a few days in oil, all it needed was a squirt with an oil can every now and then to keep the shaft lightly oiled.
Wouldn't Occupational Safety and Health have a fit to see something like that these days!
(I'm glad I live in a free country . . . yeah right!)
"......Wouldn't Occupational Safety and Health have a fit to see something like that these days!...."
Yeah they they probably wouldn't be too happy about me letting my grandson in the same room, let alone running some of the equipment either :LOL::LOL:
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The illusion of the two "mice" crossing as they collide is amazing! I recall my Dad showing me the leather loop trick to keep my bike hubs clean - a piece with a ears on each end and a slot in one that made the loop. Cool memories.Quote:
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Kewl deal Mike! Should certainly keep the shafts cleaned up!!!!
OSHA----Sold the shop and retired a few years back and I'm still having nightmares about OSHA, Fire Inspectors, Insurance Inspectors, etc. etc. etc. I'm sure this too shall pass!!!!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL::LOL:
Thanks for posting the Video Mike. I could watch that old engine and it's various shaft tools for hours. Such a cool setup.
That's cool, Mike. I have also seen it done with pieces of bicycle, motorcycle, or other chain.
It's great to see you resurrect your family's history, Mike.
My grandfather also had a shop filled with antique tools and machinery. Most of it was woodworking equipment, but, since he was a habitual collector, there were hundreds of other miscellaneous tools lying around. He also had a massive stock of dried and drying hardwood. Unfortunately, one of my cousin's husband took advantage of my grandmother just after grandpa died and offered to "haul off all that junk in the shed out back so she wouldn't have to worry about it." I'm sure he sold most of it off at auction. He was pretty much banned from family gatherings from then until he died - almost 40 years.
It sure gave me a feeling of nostalgia . . . and loss . . . when I saw your reconstruction. Good on you, and well done.
Very cool Mike!
Well seems every one knows but me How did you get them on with out disassembling the whole thing
Charlie I put a slit in each one with a thin blade on a cut off wheel. They spread enough side to side to slip over the shaft and spring back into shape.
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:LOL: Great video and a great choice for the music too. :LOL:
This item is in the house rather than the shop but this seems like the appropriate thread to put it in.
Last year Mom asked me if I would like to go thru the books that my family had collected thru the years and take the bookcase home to Arizona home with me. Of course the answer was yes. The old bookcase had been in the family ever since I can remember and Mom wasn’t sure if my Grandparents or Great Grandparents had been the original owners.
Anyway my sister, brother and I unloaded the bookcase and sorted thru the books….a lot of neat old titles and some turn of the century (1900s that is) high school books. The bookcase itself is legal style unit with glass doors over the 4 shelves. Once the books were out and I had removed the doors I noticed that there was a makers tag glued to the bottom side of the top piece. I figured that by knowing the maker I might be able to date it and figure out which generation was the originally purchaser. When I read the tag I was pretty amazed as it gave the instructions for the owner to assemble it.
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I can remember what I thought was some of the first user assembled furniture in the late 60s early 70s……you know the old particle board stuff that came with a bag a screws and would get you by for a year or two. I was pretty surprised to find out that this had actually been designed to be assembled by the owner. The bookcase has always been rock solid (no wobble or twisting in it all even thru all the moving it got in the old house I grew up in and the move the folks current house. I always just assumed that it was built in the same way other furniture from that era was (glue, dowels and screws or nails).
Anyway when I researched to company to try and date the bookcase I found out that the Gunn Furniture Company was the first to apply for a patent on the process of no tools required user assembled furniture in 1924. . From what I gathered the user assembled furniture idea was a bit ahead of its time and never really took off, although Gunn’s patent was referenced by in patent applications from other companies in the 50s and 60s. This unit was their “Mission Style Barrister Bookcase” and is fairly rare. The bookcase came apart just like it was supposed to and after I got it back together at home it’s just as solid as ever…….not bad for something 90 years old.
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It still amazes me at times on how inventive our forefather really were :)
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:coolTake that IKEA!!!::LOL:
Very cool. When I made my first major wood working project it was a pencil post bed. I think the plans for it came from fine woodworking back in the 90's. It is still my bed and has been thru at least 6 moves since I completed it. It has a great design
in that it's built very strong, and the hardware uses slip joint steel plate and just 4 nuts and bolts. The head rail floats between mortise and tenon joints. I really didn't appreciate the design until long after I first built it. Stuff like you cabinet is a rare commodity in our society. It was designed and made in an era of making stuff not cheaply, but to endure generations to come. One word sums it up, made with "Pride"
Mike, Being a cabinet maker for 30 years I have seen a bunch of old stuff come around our shop for repair, Today we call those type of cabinetry KD or "knock down" furniture, a good way to date woodwork is by the type of wood or actually the cut, if its a rift cut or quarter sawn wood its generally previous to WWII as thats the type of wood used before the war as commercial kilns where not used, the drying of wood with kilns originated during the war as the massive use of gun stocks resulted in finding how to dry wood quicker than air drying. The quarter saw wood is taken across the growth rings and has little shrinkage compared to plain sawn which is primarily used today (wider boards) though a few quarter sawn boards results out of plain sawing also. I can't really see from your photo the grain enough to tell what style cut on thewood but I see plain sawn in its construction (some was used earlier but not much) also look for diminsioned plywood, veneer work is common but the war also started up plywood factories, so check out the back, if its paneled construction it older than if its plywood.
The really older knock down furniture was made to be taken apart for the long wagon rides heading out west, a few screws where needed but actually its pretty ingenious when you see them as everything knocks down pretty flat. Great piece of American furniture, neat on the disassembly/assembly part.
Cool page about gunn furniture and has a picture of label logos by years made, if there is a logo on there this may help
Gunn Furniture Co. | Furniture City History
This link is cool too with a book / catalog of the book cabinets they made
https://archive.org/details/gunnsectionalboo00gunn
Thanks for the links Stovens. I had already come across the logo one when I was researching. I could not find any logo on it other than the tag I showed in the picture. Here’s the link I found for the patent.
https://www.google.com/patents/US1729401
If I’m reading it right the patent was applied for in 1924 and the publication date would have been when the patent was granted (?). If so as the sticker shows “patent applied for” it would seem to indicated it was built between 1924 and 1929. The main reason for wanting to date it was to determine if it had been my Grandparents or Great Grandparents and with that time frame it would have been bought by my Grandparents.
Matt I know so little about wood (other than how to turn it to sawdust by various methods) it’s embarrassing. There is no veneer or plywood (including the back and shelves). The bookcase itself is made of a dark hardwood that appears to be Mahogany. The shelves are a soft wood that I suspect is pine. The back consists of 4 thin solid pieces of what I also think is pine, that slide into grooves cut into the 2 sides of the bookcase.
Besides the bookcase itself I am especially proud of some of the books my mom let me have.
I got the encyclopedia set that’s on the top shelf. The folks bought that in 1954 while us kids were still basically babies. It was a good investment as all three of us kids used them through school for papers etc. What is the neatest part to me is they kept up their subscription and got the annual update volumes once a year that covered the changes that occurred in the world. That set runs from 1955 thru 1970.
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I also got the copy of “The Standard American Encyclopedia” that is about 4” thick and was published in 1910. There is a ten volume set of Funk &Wagnalls “Wonder Book of the Worlds Progress” from 1935, and “New Pictorial Atlas of the World” from 1921.
Probably the most cherished is the “Life of General William Tecumseh Sherman” published in 1891. This had been my Great Great Grandad Cubbage’s book and he had written his name and unit (Company F 102nd Illinois) in the inside front cover. Grandpa was a Civil War veteran and the 102nd was part of Sherman’s Army.
At least I won’t be short of reading material on those cold days I don’t spend too much time in the shop this winter.
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Ya know every time I go on the puter to research something like this I am amassed and try to remember what it would take to get all this info pre puter and pre internet unreal....ted
It goes hand in hand with Mike's comment about that 1954 encyclopedia and the annual supplements being used by all of the kids researching for the papers through the years in school. They don't do that much any more.....Quote:
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Just take a few moments to think about how effective the spreading out around the country(nation) the military after their service time has been -------It has been expotenially thousands of times more effective than the upper level education (where people learn more and more about less and less until someday they know everything about nothing) I've had 2 sets of those encyclopedias from the grocery stores where you got one a week--------
That's really a GREAT bookcase, Mike! Thanks for posting all of the details, along with the pictures. It looks great in it's new western home.
Yup Jerry the grocery store is exactly where that set of encyclopedias came from…..it was really a pretty good way for families to have a set of encyclopedias in 25 weeks without having to finance the purchase or make one large (at the time) payment.
One of the things I like the older books for is getting the perspective of the times closer to when the events happened than you can get from more current filtered and condensed history books and internet searches. I’m really looking forward to going thru the copy of “History’s Greatest War….a Pictorial Narritive” of WWI copyrighted in 1920 that I brought back.
I remember also going into the town library on occasion to research papers and it was generally a busy place........I guess not so much anymore.
I also recall when I started out as a mechanic the head mechanic in the shop pulling me aside and telling me the most important tools we had were "up there" pointing to the shelf were the factory manuals were kept. I took that bit of advice to heart .........this is what is in my shop and they still are my most important tools.
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That being said, yesterday I was researching the application of a customer’s carburetor he wanted me to rebuild. I spent about 15 minutes researching the carb number thru my carb book then remembered I had a computer. I typed the number into google and had the application in about 5 seconds.
I still love my books I refuse to buy shop manuals on disc……Maybe that’s why they call me an “old guy” (among other things….. dinosaur and fossil come to mind ). :LOL: :p
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Mike I totally agree. The internet is a great fast source of locating parts etc.., but old service manuals are also invaluable. I had a reference manual from a auto parts store with all the timing and tune up specs for just about every car on the road back in the 70's. I carried it with me thru out all of my moves but can't seem to find it now. I find some of the info on the internet not helpful, because of places like wikipedia that anyone can enter anything regardless of fact or fiction, but for technical stuff and parts searching, as well as historical searches for old items like your book shelf, It is the best. It was amazing how much I was able to find on your bookshelf and the Gunn company. In general with a good mind for search phrases and google search as well as google images I have found stuff for all my old vintage radios, and antique furniture. Anyway keep this post alive it's fun to take trips down memory lane!Quote:
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Back in the day I liked the Motor's Auto Repair Manuals, which were year specific or for a range of years. I had several, up to about 1980, but through the years they somehow disappeared from my bookshelf :CRY: I always thought the Motor's books were head & shoulders above Chilton's and the others, just my opinion.
I agree Steve, the internet can be a really invaluable source for research and a big key to that is the way you define the search parameters and phrases. It can also cause a case of information overload due to the sheer volume of information that can come up on some searches. My biggest concern and something I try to impress on the kids and Grandkids is that the information must be discerned and compared……never just read the headline (read the whole damn article) and never take a single source of information as gospel on a given subject. Something I wish was actually taught in the schools.
Roger I agree with you on the Motors vs Chilton’s manuals …although I do usually prefer the Chilton’s Flat rate manuals over the Motors (It’s a format thing rather than the time rates ;) ). The Mitchells National Service Data books aren’t all that great for most things, but I do really like the wiring diagrams they have in them. Hollanders interchange books can also pay for themselves if you have the ones that cover the vehicle years you’re interested in.
I got really lucky several years ago and scored these at a yard sale They are the real deal factory manuals and have been a great source of application data and notes.
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All that being said you still can’t beat the real factory service manuals. Even though I usually heavily mod almost everything I own, I still buy an original (or reprint when I have to) service manual. If nothing else they are a good historical reference on how the factory thought the car or truck should be built (silly factory :LOL: ) The reason I don’t have another bookshelf full of those is that I usually send them down the road with the car when I sell them.
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