marka12161
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2016
- Location
- Oswego, NY USA
A year ago i brought home a 1921 hendey tiebar lathe. I paid $500 for it and i was pretty happy because I got what i believed to be a decent machine at a pretty good price. I viewed the fact that it was old and obsolete as something to be tolerated. My brother (a machinist) has a friend who was wanting to get rid of it for what he paid for it. My brother had never seen anything like this thing.
And then i discovered this site...
Per Hendeyman, this machine was originally sold to a business in Batavia NY where my brother (also a local history buff) lives. This sequence of events set off a bit of a flurry of research on old machinery, local history etc by both of us.
Fast forward a year and i've acquired a kempsmith horizontal mill, buffalo forge camel back drill press and brown & sharp #2 surface grinder as well as a bunch of tooling and measuring equipment, all for a fraction of what you average golfer would spend in a year.
Over the past year my brother and i have had a lot of fun researching, comparing and discussing the features, capabilities and cost of antique machinery and perhaps most interestingly, thinking about the people that used this equipment to earn an honest living. We would not have had this fun if i had bought a modern machine.
To me, this is the power of history
And then i discovered this site...
Per Hendeyman, this machine was originally sold to a business in Batavia NY where my brother (also a local history buff) lives. This sequence of events set off a bit of a flurry of research on old machinery, local history etc by both of us.
Fast forward a year and i've acquired a kempsmith horizontal mill, buffalo forge camel back drill press and brown & sharp #2 surface grinder as well as a bunch of tooling and measuring equipment, all for a fraction of what you average golfer would spend in a year.
Over the past year my brother and i have had a lot of fun researching, comparing and discussing the features, capabilities and cost of antique machinery and perhaps most interestingly, thinking about the people that used this equipment to earn an honest living. We would not have had this fun if i had bought a modern machine.
To me, this is the power of history