For the last 3 years I have been talking to a company about these Brown and Sharpes they have in storage. I guess they bought out a local watch company and put the jobs on their cnc swiss screw machines. I guess they took the Brownies out of the building as a favor to the company they just bought out and just put them in storage.
They sat in storage for a few years and they tried to get one or two running but didn’t have the best of luck. People don’t like getting dirty and they aren’t big money makers if you cant get them running.
I finally got a chance to get down there to see these machines. They are all “00” machines, many with pickoff/slotting attachments. I think they had 7-10 machines that were running when they took them out of service and have a few parts machines as well.
Lots of cam sets and tooling.
I am taking everything and going through it and keeping the winners and scrapping the losers. They are perfectly fine with it. I am pretty sure I can get 4-5 running machines I can keep long running jobs on so I don’t have to break them down and set up new jobs constantly. Let them sit until the job comes up and run the piss out of it.
I may even get a job or 2 that was running on them when they bought the company. They have notes for a miniature part that has a 3.5 second cycle time.
Anyway. Thought I would share the news. I will now have over 25 Brown and Sharpe Screw Machines.
They sat in storage for a few years and they tried to get one or two running but didn’t have the best of luck. People don’t like getting dirty and they aren’t big money makers if you cant get them running.
I finally got a chance to get down there to see these machines. They are all “00” machines, many with pickoff/slotting attachments. I think they had 7-10 machines that were running when they took them out of service and have a few parts machines as well.
Lots of cam sets and tooling.
I am taking everything and going through it and keeping the winners and scrapping the losers. They are perfectly fine with it. I am pretty sure I can get 4-5 running machines I can keep long running jobs on so I don’t have to break them down and set up new jobs constantly. Let them sit until the job comes up and run the piss out of it.
I may even get a job or 2 that was running on them when they bought the company. They have notes for a miniature part that has a 3.5 second cycle time.
Anyway. Thought I would share the news. I will now have over 25 Brown and Sharpe Screw Machines.