Salem Straub
Cast Iron
- Joined
- May 22, 2012
- Location
- WA, USA
I just got this machine in on Saturday... it was shipped cross country to me, from N.C. to WA, via Yellow/Reddaway freight. They actually did a pretty decent job... no damage and a reasonable shipping charge. This is a Gebruder Thiel number 3 die filer. It originally had a jackshaft setup mounted low on the base casting, with a four cone-pulley setup to match the machine's drive shaft, as well as a foot pedal clutch system to control power transmission. Many of those parts were missing, so I opted to strip the unnecessary parts away and turn an aluminum drive wheel for direct motor shaft mount, harvested a 1/2hp 3 phase motor from my scrap motor pallet, and just run a synthetic flat belt to the largest cone pulley, then control via VFD for speed control. This seems to work quite well... although I have a 3/4 hp motor I could swap to should this one prove to bog in use.
This is a really neat old piece. It has a date of 1948 on the table, and a couple of cool brass tags elsewhere. The castings are nicely styled and definitely way heavier than they need to be, in many cases.
I took the crank case apart and found an old birds nest in there... and one of the lower bushings had come out of the casting. Fixed all that and brightened and oiled all sliding surfaces, and after fabricating a motor mount and belt, it works!
Admittedly I'm not a fastidious rebuilder of machines... I tend to get them running decently and put them to work. I usually like the distressed look of old paint and browned steel surfaces, as long as all the moving parts are in order. Here I do still have to fabricate (maybe forge then machine) some hold-down arms, as the pinch factor is real when they're not present.
There's almost nothing available on the web in English regarding these machines, other than pictures of maybe three or or four that I've found with no explanation. SO I'm trying to add in whatever way I can to their online presence.
This is a really neat old piece. It has a date of 1948 on the table, and a couple of cool brass tags elsewhere. The castings are nicely styled and definitely way heavier than they need to be, in many cases.
I took the crank case apart and found an old birds nest in there... and one of the lower bushings had come out of the casting. Fixed all that and brightened and oiled all sliding surfaces, and after fabricating a motor mount and belt, it works!
Admittedly I'm not a fastidious rebuilder of machines... I tend to get them running decently and put them to work. I usually like the distressed look of old paint and browned steel surfaces, as long as all the moving parts are in order. Here I do still have to fabricate (maybe forge then machine) some hold-down arms, as the pinch factor is real when they're not present.
There's almost nothing available on the web in English regarding these machines, other than pictures of maybe three or or four that I've found with no explanation. SO I'm trying to add in whatever way I can to their online presence.
