Check this one out! Sorry for the size. :rolleyes:
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Check this one out! Sorry for the size. :rolleyes:
I worked on one about that size when I was in high school
I think many of us did! I still have some of the goodies I made in the jr high machine shop! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by NTFDAY
That is cool
Keeping Chips out if the Interior would be fun, but otherwise it's really cool-
Out-of-the-box-thinking alright.
Just wondering how he powered it.
...and yes; the swarf would be a pita.
I'd wondered too, and on a Hobby Machinists forum they'd ID'd the photo as being a salesman's rig, selling equipment to machinists.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnboy
The Sunnen salesman for this area had a rod/piston honing unit on a slide out in the back of a station wagon back in early 70s
Looks like a South Bend. Maybe 9 or 10 inch. I have a 10" Sheldon that I keep a 3 jaw chuck on. Super handy size for most car stuff.
I just noticed that there is a shaper directly behind the front seats. Shapers were very common up until the 60's. Still very handy for a home shop. They can do many functions of a milling machine, but use simple hand ground single point tools. The tools are almost exactly like lathe tool bits.
The main problem with them is that they are slow and fell out of favor. There was an old saying that you could make anything but money with a shaper!