Allegheny
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2008
- Location
- New England
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Brian,
I'm 30 minutes north but I too always loved these machines. You want to solicit materials I'm sure I could arrange to gather them. I cut my machinist teeth on this baby many moons ago. I wish I had it today.
thanks Brian,CWalker,
You're looking in the wrong place. I posted many more manuals on the VintageMachinery website.
Here is a link to the manual for the various models of the 22:
Van Norman Machine Tool Co. - Publication Reprints - Van Norman No. 22 Series Instruction Manual and Parts Lists | VintageMachinery.org
The Van Norman "folder" is here:
Van Norman Machine Tool Co. - Publication Reprints | VintageMachinery.org
Cheers,
Brian
Taxachusetts
Solidworks,
A 38 is certainly a nice machine and is very capable with 10hp on a 50 taper spindle. But it is basically a dinosaur. I could be wrong, but I can't see any serious machine shop allocating space for such a beast unless they had a very specific need for such a large mill that couldn't be better served by a small or mid-sized VMC. That's not to say that you couldn't find such a shop, but it's likely to take a while. The several that I've seen over the last few years end up going for scrap, and the shops end up losing money when the rigging out costs are factored in (unless they have their own forklifts, trucks, etc.). The one 38 that I know of that wasn't scrapped (it was up near Portland, ME) was given away to save the rigging costs.
OTOH, there's also a fairly robust interest in Van Normans from the hobbyist sector, but very few home shop types are capable of handling a 4 ton machine. I do know of one guy, in central Mass, that is seriously into larger VN's; if you PM me your contact info and some specifics: asking price, tooling, etc., I can give him a call and put the two of you in touch if he's interested.
If nothing else, I would love to borrow your manuals so that I could scan them and upload them to the VM.org website.
Brian
Taxachusetts
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