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I purchased new around 1972.

I have cross slide screw with the new dial for direct reading.?

I'm very interested.

Work up a price for the stuff and we can talk.

J E Snyder drill press project:

Was needle scaled to remove a century's worth of paint then flap wheeled to clean it further before the application of self-etching primer was applied to the upper castings.

That took four days of climbing up and down a ladder and the subsequent constant vibration in my hands for about 15 minutes after I set the scaler down each time.?

All of the heavy cast iron gear guards were stripped bare and now in primer too.

The lower drive pulley was removed to access the frame casting.

In all, the table is 32 inches in diameter and in it's lowest position the machine is about nine feet tall.

We think she weighs about 3,000 pounds, so she ain't no lightweight either.

The Fred R Clark Machineworks is in an unheated building, so all progress was halted due to cold weather.

It came out of an Equitable gas facility that bought it new and we acquired it for the kingly sum of twelve US dollars after it got sent to auction.

We think she was born in 1914 because his son wasn't a part of it until then.

Somewhere I have the pictures of it outside the day we delivered it there, but since my pictures are so disorganized, that might take a minute.

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I also have a pictorial of the spindle removal on our old 20 inch Monarch engine lathe.

The cool part about that was chucking it's spindle in my Dad's WWII era Springfield 16 incher to dress the bearing fits while it was out of the machine.

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I'm a fourth generation machinist by the way, technically considered a tool and die maker,? so I likely bleed sulfur oil and have chips in the elastic band of my underwear.

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My first job shop experience was rough turning shafts small shafts before OD grinding for my Dad on a South Bend 9A while standing on a steel five gallon oil pail at the tender age of five.

My job was simple, watch it cut then switch it off when the tool got near the chuck, then jump down and get my Dad to fixture the next part.

And you guessed it, he still has that lathe..

My great grandfather was a master machinist during WWII for Mesta Machine, which is something I take pride in saying.

Mesta for those who aren't familiar with them built some of the largest machinetools ever produced in that era, probably something that no operation will ever be able to say again.

Dad turns 84 this year and still goes to work every day in his progressive CNC shop.

He writes his G-code like a machine by now and is highly respected by most who know him for his abilities and the quality of his work.

I was at the helm for quite a while until I got a disabling injury and had to step away.

Little brother gets to run it next because that is the only place he ever worked and he deserves it.