Re: [Emc-users] Kirk's old iron
On 06/13/2013 10:39 PM, Cecil Thomas wrote: Kirk, If you would like I could take a few shots of my machine and send them off line or can I post them here as attachment. I forget. I guess at some level of exactness most of any class of machine tool look pretty much alike and besides if it works... don't fix it! Cecil If it is convenient, I would like to see your machine. In 1916 the US was tooling up for WWI. The government probably provided the specifications and maybe plans for the machines they wanted, so machines of this type where most likely very similar. At some point the pulleys on my machine where replaced with v-belt pulleys and a motor attachment. I'm hoping to find good pictures of an original machine, so I can reproduce the flat belt pulley mechanism. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Kirk's old iron
Kirk, Your Standard Engineering Works No. 1 appears to be the spitting image of my U.S. Machine Tools Cincinnati horizontal mill. I put a treadmill motor and controller on it and it works great. I am sure there must have been some relationship or some design stealing early on between Standard and U. S. and probably Burke because they all seem to be too close for coincidence. Cecil -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Kirk's old iron
On 06/13/2013 10:07 AM, Cecil Thomas wrote: Kirk, Your Standard Engineering Works No. 1 appears to be the spitting image of my U.S. Machine Tools Cincinnati horizontal mill. I put a treadmill motor and controller on it and it works great. I am sure there must have been some relationship or some design stealing early on between Standard and U. S. and probably Burke because they all seem to be too close for coincidence. Cecil There are two links I have so far for my mill. One is an entry in Cope's book: http://www.amazon.com/American-Milling-Machines-Kenneth-Cope/dp/1931626243/ This has a couple of pictures and a very short paragraph saying that Standard Engineering Works was formed in 1916 and production probably ceased at the end of WWI. I have (somewhere) another link to a machinery museum in the Midwest which has an ad from the company listed in their archive. Standard was in Pawtucket, RI The entry for United States Machine Tool Company of Cincinnati, OH says that it was formed in 1916 and only made a No. 1 hand miller and vertical attachments. There are a couple of ads included. It doesn't say when they went out of business. Quite a few years back, I tried to contact Mr. Cope to see if he had any more leads, but he had just passed away and I assume a wealth of knowledge went with him. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Kirk's old iron
Kirk, If you would like I could take a few shots of my machine and send them off line or can I post them here as attachment. I forget. I guess at some level of exactness most of any class of machine tool look pretty much alike and besides if it works... don't fix it! Cecil -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
