enginebill
Stainless
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2005
- Location
- Plymouth Meeting PA
I have had the pleasure of helping clean out a circa 1880's machine shop in Bristol PA. The main part of the building was a church that was built in the 1840's and the machine shop was started in the 1880's. The place was packed full of junk. So far we have cleaned out about 15 tons of scrap and still have more to go. The owner of the building want's to clean out the building and sell it but want's to see as many of the machines preserved as possible. The amazing thing is that the shop was full of early tools and machines, nothing was thrown away and everything is still ready to work. Several machines and tools are going to the Rough and Tumble machine shop in Kinzers PA. Today we took out a circa 1840's chain feed lathe which is on its way to R&T. Another machine going to R&T is a screw feed planer circa 1850's. Neither the lathe or the planer have names on them. Here are a couple of pictures of the R&T machines.