magneticanomaly
Titanium
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2007
- Location
- On Elk Mountain, West Virginia, USA
A rescue from the scrapyard. Alas by the time I saw it there, it had already been dropped on the pile and buried. Three months later they had pulled it back out, but lost my number. I went to the yard last week to lok for something else, and the guy said, "We have your cast-iron piece..."
The most serious obvious damage is the spindle bull gear, a little more than half of which is still there. I suppose I ciould wled in an arc of steel and cut new teeth, or repl;ace it with a big timing-belt pulley I think I have somewhere. Second most serious is bent spindle elevating screw and broken bracket. That is counting the rust as free iron ore. Missing outboard overarm support.
About 2700 lb One pic shows it hoisted off the 1954 IHC truck I hauled it 50 miles home on.
What caught my fancy was the long sadle travel parallel to the spindle...Not a HBM, but getting there.
Also curious that the bull-gear spindle drive means very slow spindle speeds.
Anyone familar with Becker? Looks like a hundred years old or thereabouts.
The most serious obvious damage is the spindle bull gear, a little more than half of which is still there. I suppose I ciould wled in an arc of steel and cut new teeth, or repl;ace it with a big timing-belt pulley I think I have somewhere. Second most serious is bent spindle elevating screw and broken bracket. That is counting the rust as free iron ore. Missing outboard overarm support.
About 2700 lb One pic shows it hoisted off the 1954 IHC truck I hauled it 50 miles home on.
What caught my fancy was the long sadle travel parallel to the spindle...Not a HBM, but getting there.
Also curious that the bull-gear spindle drive means very slow spindle speeds.
Anyone familar with Becker? Looks like a hundred years old or thereabouts.