Joe Michaels
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2004
- Location
- Shandaken, NY, USA
I am realizing we only get one lifetime, and that of finite and unknown length. As a result, I am clearing out my shop of equipment I haven't used in ages and won't use again. All I ask is: come take it and give it a good home, adapt it for re-use, or pass it along to someone who has need of it. Here is the list, a bit O/T:
-DeWalt 8" radial arm saw. This is a 1950's DeWalt/AMF machine, original 'spatterdash' green paint, on original DeWalt cabinet base with original Dewalt folding table top. Only thing not original on this saw is the addition of a modern push-button switch rather than the original key switch. This is a very well built radial arm saw, a lot more precise and rigid than the later ones. Wire for 110 volts.
-Craftsman 4" jointer. This is a cast iron jointer built ca. 1945-50's. It has new knives in it. It was given to me by an electrician on a jobsite who bought it when he came home from WWII. He ran it as part of a 'home shop' setup with a two-shaft Craftsman motor. I built a stand and ran it with a 1 HP 3450 rpm motor. I got a Delta 6" jointer and moved the 1 HP motor to drive it. This is a good little jointer, but will need a stand and motor.
Funny story was that I had just gotten married, and my wife used to visit me on that jobsite. The electrician approached me one morning and pulled out the jointer from his car. His remarks were something to the effect: "God Bless you and your wife, here... make a cradle..." Coming up on 39 years of marriage, kids grown, no need grandchildren in the foreseeable future. Whether you take the jointer and saw to make a cradle or anything else, all that matters to me is they go to someone who has some use for them.
-Skil 3/4" electric drill. This is from the late 40's-1950's and came out of a local John Deere and farm machinery shop. It is a cast aluminum housing drill with 1" pipe holdback bar, and Jacobs keyed chuck. Non reversible, single speed, 110 volts. I've used it a few times, and it is a bear. There is a reason they invented magnetic based drill presses. Might make a good drive for a portable boring bar with some adaptation.
-Craftsman sign making template kit and guide for routers. Appears un-used in original box. No idea where this came from.
-Craftsman router table, probably from the 1970's, probably came in the same lot of stuff as the sign making template kit.
All of this is located at my home shop in Shandaken, NY. Shandaken is located approximately 130 miles NW of NY City, 90 miles SW of Albany, NY.
If no takers here, then I will put the items out along NYS Route 28 with a "free stuff" sign and let some anonymous person(s) have at it.
-DeWalt 8" radial arm saw. This is a 1950's DeWalt/AMF machine, original 'spatterdash' green paint, on original DeWalt cabinet base with original Dewalt folding table top. Only thing not original on this saw is the addition of a modern push-button switch rather than the original key switch. This is a very well built radial arm saw, a lot more precise and rigid than the later ones. Wire for 110 volts.
-Craftsman 4" jointer. This is a cast iron jointer built ca. 1945-50's. It has new knives in it. It was given to me by an electrician on a jobsite who bought it when he came home from WWII. He ran it as part of a 'home shop' setup with a two-shaft Craftsman motor. I built a stand and ran it with a 1 HP 3450 rpm motor. I got a Delta 6" jointer and moved the 1 HP motor to drive it. This is a good little jointer, but will need a stand and motor.
Funny story was that I had just gotten married, and my wife used to visit me on that jobsite. The electrician approached me one morning and pulled out the jointer from his car. His remarks were something to the effect: "God Bless you and your wife, here... make a cradle..." Coming up on 39 years of marriage, kids grown, no need grandchildren in the foreseeable future. Whether you take the jointer and saw to make a cradle or anything else, all that matters to me is they go to someone who has some use for them.
-Skil 3/4" electric drill. This is from the late 40's-1950's and came out of a local John Deere and farm machinery shop. It is a cast aluminum housing drill with 1" pipe holdback bar, and Jacobs keyed chuck. Non reversible, single speed, 110 volts. I've used it a few times, and it is a bear. There is a reason they invented magnetic based drill presses. Might make a good drive for a portable boring bar with some adaptation.
-Craftsman sign making template kit and guide for routers. Appears un-used in original box. No idea where this came from.
-Craftsman router table, probably from the 1970's, probably came in the same lot of stuff as the sign making template kit.
All of this is located at my home shop in Shandaken, NY. Shandaken is located approximately 130 miles NW of NY City, 90 miles SW of Albany, NY.
If no takers here, then I will put the items out along NYS Route 28 with a "free stuff" sign and let some anonymous person(s) have at it.