Bowtie_Finn
Aluminum
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2018
- Location
- Roanoke
I am a bit of a Antique Machinery/Machine Tool Nerd - so I may post to this section of the forum a bit to much
I thought it would be cool to strike up a conversation on the Kempsmith Universal Dividing Head, and more generally the Kempsmith MFG Co.
I picked this Dividing Head up from a local Machine Shop - who only used it once in their 20+ years of ownership (to fix a forklift gear). It took me a minute to realize "K MFG Co" was Kempsmith and much to my surprise they are still in business - as this Dividing Head is circa 1916 - and they were founded in 1888 or so!
This is one of the nicer/well constructed dividing heads I have come across in my travels (probably a bit bias)
I hope one day to try and fabricate a drive train for this for spiral milling/etc with the dividing head - may try to email Kempsmith to see if they have any info on the drive train.
The Manual is located here: http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/2107/5797.pdf
- These old manuals are always an enjoyable read - leaps and bounds over the manuals that are produced with modern machines lol!
I thought it would be cool to strike up a conversation on the Kempsmith Universal Dividing Head, and more generally the Kempsmith MFG Co.
I picked this Dividing Head up from a local Machine Shop - who only used it once in their 20+ years of ownership (to fix a forklift gear). It took me a minute to realize "K MFG Co" was Kempsmith and much to my surprise they are still in business - as this Dividing Head is circa 1916 - and they were founded in 1888 or so!
This is one of the nicer/well constructed dividing heads I have come across in my travels (probably a bit bias)
I hope one day to try and fabricate a drive train for this for spiral milling/etc with the dividing head - may try to email Kempsmith to see if they have any info on the drive train.
The Manual is located here: http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/2107/5797.pdf
- These old manuals are always an enjoyable read - leaps and bounds over the manuals that are produced with modern machines lol!