kpotter
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2001
- Location
- tucson arizona usa
I got back from vacation today and while we were driveing through this old mining town I stopped at aan old building that said globe machine works. It was about a 110 degrees out so my wife was less than enthusiastic about the idea but I went in to check the place out I couldnt believe it when I went in all the machines were early flat belt machines all in working order and still in use. The owner was ninty and he had owned the place since 1931 his son was in his 70's they were both still doing machine work. He had five different lathes one was huge at least a 30 inch swing with a 20 ft bed. The most interesting machine was a traversing head shaper with three knees on it. It too was flat belt powered and he even ran it for me it was very strange to see in operation. I took video of the shop but I dont know how to load it on the computer. The shop is for sale because they want to retire and the childeren are not interested in the business. He also had several brown and sharpe universal horizontal mills all flat belt. There were no vertical mills in the shop. All of the equipment was probably purchased new by the original owner of the shop prior to 1931 because all of it seemed to be older than that and in its original paint.