Greg Menke
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2004
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
This old shop was introduced back in July, due to clutter making much of shop inaccessible the photos were less than satisfactory. Previous threads;
Historic Machine Shop Bulit for Marine Engines (thread 2)
Historic Machine Shop Built for Marine Engines (thread 3)
Originally, as discussed in the older July threads, this was the Keystone Marine Motor Works, operating from the late 1800's until the 1930's. Later the building was taken over as something of a garage, but the older equipment was generally not disturbed.
Quite a bit of the clutter has been removed since July which made a survey more reasonable. I was up there last week to buy the Canedy-Otto screw press, examined and photographed what I reasonably could in an afternoon. I created a webpage here;
http://pounceatron.dreamhosters.com/keystone-marine-motor/index.html
Referencing the webpage pics might make discussion a bit easier. This shop is an estate sale situation the seller would like to sell off the machines to good homes, the rest will go the scrapper when the time comes. I am not participating in the sale, my involvement is to help present the machines to increase the chances of them being sold to good homes rather than scrapped.
The executor of the estate is handling the sales/pickup, he has a backhoe on-site to help load though we both have concerns of its capacity for the larger machines. I have his permission to cite the previous threads, likewise putting up the pics in my webpage. If there is interest in purchasing any of the items shown please PM me and I'll relay the message. He might chime in here as well.
Regards,
Greg
Historic Machine Shop Bulit for Marine Engines (thread 2)
Historic Machine Shop Built for Marine Engines (thread 3)
Originally, as discussed in the older July threads, this was the Keystone Marine Motor Works, operating from the late 1800's until the 1930's. Later the building was taken over as something of a garage, but the older equipment was generally not disturbed.
Quite a bit of the clutter has been removed since July which made a survey more reasonable. I was up there last week to buy the Canedy-Otto screw press, examined and photographed what I reasonably could in an afternoon. I created a webpage here;
http://pounceatron.dreamhosters.com/keystone-marine-motor/index.html
Referencing the webpage pics might make discussion a bit easier. This shop is an estate sale situation the seller would like to sell off the machines to good homes, the rest will go the scrapper when the time comes. I am not participating in the sale, my involvement is to help present the machines to increase the chances of them being sold to good homes rather than scrapped.
The executor of the estate is handling the sales/pickup, he has a backhoe on-site to help load though we both have concerns of its capacity for the larger machines. I have his permission to cite the previous threads, likewise putting up the pics in my webpage. If there is interest in purchasing any of the items shown please PM me and I'll relay the message. He might chime in here as well.
Regards,
Greg
