Hi there shaper lovers. It only took about 10 days or less of working with the nice Rhodes 7" with 1 HP DC drive to... can I say fall in love with this way of shaving metal?
Then he sends me a pic of his Hendey shaper. Gulp, uh oh, ummm. Ok, now I'm shocked and thinking this old relic is probably out 20 or 25 thou, but ok, I'll go look at it. I asked if we could tram the table and he said "sure". Well it's a good thing he sent a link to that you tube vid of the friction shaper running, before I came up to look because this particular Hendey has not been turned on in 20 years and everything was stuck tight! Cutting to the chase I bought it, we unloaded into my shop two days back and yesterday started pulling apart for cleaning and measuring. I only find two issues. The two bevel table raising gears skip, am thinking a bush at the leadscrew end might cure this. The other, two teeth, the last two teeth of ram all the way forward are broken. Might remove and braze. Only clocked the four corners of the ram so far but the readings were only out .0015. Wow. So finally my question, does someone have an idea when serial number 696 was made?
Thanks for your help.
Larry in NH.
So I happened to make a call to an old gunsmith friend and asked him if he might have a shaper vise and did he still that that larger shaper and was it for sale?
No vise but he'd like to sell the shaper. It's a Hendey 15". So I do a search, (wow I'm impressed by Hendey that's for sure) and see something from the 1940's and wow I'm, excited, really excited! Then he sends me a pic of his Hendey shaper. Gulp, uh oh, ummm. Ok, now I'm shocked and thinking this old relic is probably out 20 or 25 thou, but ok, I'll go look at it. I asked if we could tram the table and he said "sure". Well it's a good thing he sent a link to that you tube vid of the friction shaper running, before I came up to look because this particular Hendey has not been turned on in 20 years and everything was stuck tight! Cutting to the chase I bought it, we unloaded into my shop two days back and yesterday started pulling apart for cleaning and measuring. I only find two issues. The two bevel table raising gears skip, am thinking a bush at the leadscrew end might cure this. The other, two teeth, the last two teeth of ram all the way forward are broken. Might remove and braze. Only clocked the four corners of the ram so far but the readings were only out .0015. Wow. So finally my question, does someone have an idea when serial number 696 was made?
This is my first post here and I'm not sure what might happen to this post if I try and insert a pic right now, so I won't.Thanks for your help.
Larry in NH.