A local machinist who also happens to be a friend of some friends is retiring and selling all of his equipment. Well I was made an offer I couldn't refuse and ended up picking up a lot more than I planned on getting. I got a huge old Lincoln Idealarc Tig welder with water cooled torch and pump, a 20" Rockwell Vertical band saw, a 12" Ramco horizontal band saw (with coolant pump), a steel table with attached 12" disc sander and bench grinder, A nice aluminum cabinet, a metal bolt bin, air hose reel, medium size heavy duty drill press, and a few other little things.
Oh and did I mention the welder came with a PILE of different filler rods and a couple boxes of spare parts, tungsten, an argon tank with flowmeter, and an extra gas cooled torch. Both band saws also came with extra blades as well.
Now I just gotta figure out how I'm gonna fit all this into my shop. It was getting crowded in there already and now I'm gonna have to do a serious cleaning and rearrangement to get it all in and functional. I simply couldn't pass up this deal though, so even if I have to store some of the stuff for a while until I can move into a bigger shop it'll be worth it.
Oh and check out this bitchin Turret lathe he's got in there too. Dustin may be a little guy, but this thing is still HUGE. Can you say 42" table. I cant even imagine what this thing must be like when it's working. It just screams dangerous.
I don't know if that is 42", we have a 42" Bullard VTL at work that has been retrofitted with a Fanuc CNC control and it is a hell of a lot bigger than that. But I am still a newb to the machining world. We also have a Toshiba Shibaura (sp?) VTL that is over 3 stories tall, that is inside a 2 story tall building and sunk into the floor. The table is BIG, I'd guess in the 18' territory.
looks like a bullard. that is a small one. many were built with 50"-72" swings. also made them with 108" swings. betts made some really large ones as well as niles- 25foot diameter tables. you could turn it on and go for a ride on it!!!.(no i've never done that or got to operate one of them.) b.t.w.-you scored on the lincoln tig welder. well made and pretty reliable. we had one in our maint. shop and i used it every day sometimes 8 hours a day 5 days a week for a couple weeks straight and never had a problem with it. worked at that plant for 14 years. one job consisted of lining all of the walls in the room with 1/8" stainless steel sheets 4'x8' bolted to a cinderblock wall and then tig weld all the seams together. the bottom seam required me to lay on a creeper while welding it up. couple week job day in and day out. that welder never failed to work.
I really know nothing about the turret, but there was a tape measure sitting on it so I ran it across the table and got 42".
I just got done unloading everything from the trailer and into my shop. It's all just sitting in the middle of the floor for now until I find a place for everything. Here are some pics of the other stuff I got.
Oh, and to make you all really hate me, I looked on ebay last night and found that exact model vertical band saw selling for about what I paid for EVERYTHING.
if you get a chance I would love a pic or two of the details of the disk sander, the table looks shop made so I'm assuming the disk backing plate is also.
Iv'e been thinkin about making one so I'm kinda curious how they went about it. Thanks
cha ching! nice score Dallas. I love the hunt for cool "old man tools" that's where most of my stuff comes from too.
Speaking of big stuff Yoder just had a buddy clearing out and old place (yes we scored) I have a picture of Yoder standing with his back to the chuck of a lathe and the spindle is a foot above his head. 14' (yes that's foot) swing. Would have loved to see that old schooler in use.
Our tool and die shop just got a used Rockwell similar to that. It has a pneumatic feed adapted to it, well worth the time and money IMHO. Unless you have a horizontal bandsaw which you do.
There's always kickin' deals around here, just no dinero to buy any of it..................yet. :shaking:
Nice score! I am totally coveting the vertical bandsaw, I would love to have one.
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