Greetings and Hallucinations from the wilds of New Brunswick.
I'm located about 20 min north of Woodstock and have recently pulled the trigger on some shop equipment of my own. Merry Christmas to me!
What we're looking at here is about 1 1/2 Fay & Scott lathes in the 14x40 range, a Canadian Forge and Blower camel back drill press and a whole lot of miscellaneous tooling, chucks, drills, jack shafts, motors and other assorted iron bits and pieces. The old F250 was getting a workout bringing this home.
I'm in Information Technology (professional bit pusher) although I've had a love of metalworking since an ill advised shop class choice in the late 1980's exposed me to a metal lathe and drill press. Also, manual metalworking is about as far away as I can get from computers. No CNC in THIS shop! Also no real plans at this stage other than to rehabilitate the equipment and get it functional. I have a few small project ideas, like making a bushing for the worn out brake pedal pivot on my old motorcycle, swing arm bronze bushings instead of the spongy plastic replacements, etc... That and the ancestral Scot in me comes out in that I'd rather spend money and time on tools, materials and skills rather than parts or ready to assemble flimsy crap.
Anyway, I'll probably be asking questions related to ancient machinery and hopefully get answers that don't include "Buy X from McMaster Carr" who I found out today can't be arsed to ship to Canada....
I'm located about 20 min north of Woodstock and have recently pulled the trigger on some shop equipment of my own. Merry Christmas to me!
What we're looking at here is about 1 1/2 Fay & Scott lathes in the 14x40 range, a Canadian Forge and Blower camel back drill press and a whole lot of miscellaneous tooling, chucks, drills, jack shafts, motors and other assorted iron bits and pieces. The old F250 was getting a workout bringing this home.
I'm in Information Technology (professional bit pusher) although I've had a love of metalworking since an ill advised shop class choice in the late 1980's exposed me to a metal lathe and drill press. Also, manual metalworking is about as far away as I can get from computers. No CNC in THIS shop! Also no real plans at this stage other than to rehabilitate the equipment and get it functional. I have a few small project ideas, like making a bushing for the worn out brake pedal pivot on my old motorcycle, swing arm bronze bushings instead of the spongy plastic replacements, etc... That and the ancestral Scot in me comes out in that I'd rather spend money and time on tools, materials and skills rather than parts or ready to assemble flimsy crap.
Anyway, I'll probably be asking questions related to ancient machinery and hopefully get answers that don't include "Buy X from McMaster Carr" who I found out today can't be arsed to ship to Canada....
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