Burton LeGeyt
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 27, 2011
- Location
- Boston, MA
Hello all,
I was able to tour an old shop in Waltham, MA yesterday and wanted to share what I saw. For reference, it is the shop from this thread:
Clearing out old machine shop
It was/is the Randall & Stickney Gauge and Indicator shop. The current owner of the shop is a very nice guy but not well versed in machine tools. I had reached out to him after seeing his initial thread and offered to help give a sense of what was in there. My interests are primarily focused on Waltham (and similar) era bench lathes/mills from the 30's or so and there is a lot of that in there. Bigger stuff as well, which I don't know the specifics of as well.
The stuff does need to go- not necessarily immediately but sooner rather than later. He has been encouraged to reach out to the Charles River Museum but has been having trouble getting someone over there to look through everything. Assuming they don't want all the stuff (and there is a lot there) the owner was hoping to get a sense of what kind of interest there might be in the machines and tooling. I realize this is impossible to gauge fully without a complete inventory list, but I can share a few shots of what I saw. There is the possibility of going back and documenting what is there more fully.
Here are some shots from the upstairs room, which has the majority of the bench lathes setup. One side is all Stark bench lathes and the other has smaller watchmaking sized tools- small sensitive drills, a sensitive tapping machine, indexing slides etc...
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I don't have a shot of the first floor main room, where there are some larger machines. A B&S horizontal mill with a cabinet of tooling, a very clean Hardinge DV-59 and a clean HSL machine, a large flat belt driven Landis cyclindrical grinder (with accessories, also flat belt driven) and its corresponding complex countershaft system, older Reed lathes (maybe 16" swing?) and what looks like a Barnes lathe. I'm not as sure on the older stuff. And I realize I should have pictures- apologies, it was a little overwhelming!
I was able to tour an old shop in Waltham, MA yesterday and wanted to share what I saw. For reference, it is the shop from this thread:
Clearing out old machine shop
It was/is the Randall & Stickney Gauge and Indicator shop. The current owner of the shop is a very nice guy but not well versed in machine tools. I had reached out to him after seeing his initial thread and offered to help give a sense of what was in there. My interests are primarily focused on Waltham (and similar) era bench lathes/mills from the 30's or so and there is a lot of that in there. Bigger stuff as well, which I don't know the specifics of as well.
The stuff does need to go- not necessarily immediately but sooner rather than later. He has been encouraged to reach out to the Charles River Museum but has been having trouble getting someone over there to look through everything. Assuming they don't want all the stuff (and there is a lot there) the owner was hoping to get a sense of what kind of interest there might be in the machines and tooling. I realize this is impossible to gauge fully without a complete inventory list, but I can share a few shots of what I saw. There is the possibility of going back and documenting what is there more fully.
Here are some shots from the upstairs room, which has the majority of the bench lathes setup. One side is all Stark bench lathes and the other has smaller watchmaking sized tools- small sensitive drills, a sensitive tapping machine, indexing slides etc...
View attachment 329077
I don't have a shot of the first floor main room, where there are some larger machines. A B&S horizontal mill with a cabinet of tooling, a very clean Hardinge DV-59 and a clean HSL machine, a large flat belt driven Landis cyclindrical grinder (with accessories, also flat belt driven) and its corresponding complex countershaft system, older Reed lathes (maybe 16" swing?) and what looks like a Barnes lathe. I'm not as sure on the older stuff. And I realize I should have pictures- apologies, it was a little overwhelming!