Don't know why , I was always fascinated by meal shapers. As one of the folks on youtube said - there are only two devices in the shop you can work on while sitting - one is the shaper, other is toilet sit.
Jokes aside, I was watching many videos and restoration blogs and wanted this machine rather badly. I was plowing trough local ads site, local and remote junk yards, visiting estate sales and so on, without any luck. I should say that Ottawa area in Ontario is not an industrial region at all. All faded glory of auto and machine makers was concentrated west of Toronto.
As usual I found shaper just under my nose - 10 miles from my home somebody was keeping machine that was "too big". I negotiated the price quite quickly and arranged delivery - here are first pictures of it.
Loading and unloading with "tilt-and-load" truck was piece of cake including chit-chat and questions like " what are you gonna do with this piece of junk?"
Ok. Machine is on the ground - now close inspection time...
I know , I know - it is heavily rusted and seized and dirty and vise is not original... but it is part of the fun, isn't it ?
To be continued
BTW - is there way to rotate pictures that were uploaded ?
Jokes aside, I was watching many videos and restoration blogs and wanted this machine rather badly. I was plowing trough local ads site, local and remote junk yards, visiting estate sales and so on, without any luck. I should say that Ottawa area in Ontario is not an industrial region at all. All faded glory of auto and machine makers was concentrated west of Toronto.
As usual I found shaper just under my nose - 10 miles from my home somebody was keeping machine that was "too big". I negotiated the price quite quickly and arranged delivery - here are first pictures of it.
Loading and unloading with "tilt-and-load" truck was piece of cake including chit-chat and questions like " what are you gonna do with this piece of junk?"
Ok. Machine is on the ground - now close inspection time...
I know , I know - it is heavily rusted and seized and dirty and vise is not original... but it is part of the fun, isn't it ?
To be continued
BTW - is there way to rotate pictures that were uploaded ?