M.B. Naegle
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Conroe, TX USA
So here's the background. My dad's been in the leather industry his whole life but early on desided he liked working on the machinery more. Our Machine shop started when my dad aprenticed with a retired neighbor and bought his tools and machinery. He built up the shop over the years (Naegle's Industrial Leather Machinery) and in 1999, we bought the Campbell Bosworth Machinery Co. of Ft. Lauderdale FL. This company was founded in 1882 and hit it's peak in the 30's-40's era. From there it slowly went down till in 1999 it's owner was 'retired' with two employees. We started to patch things up and build the company back to where it needed to be till in 2006, we bought the Randall Leather Machinery corp. of Long Island, NY (which was in similar circumstances as CBMC, but founded in 1858) and formed Campbell Randall Machinery Co. Throughout this entire process we're had zero time to shut the shop down and devote time purely to organizing and setting up the shop. It's been a non-stop on-the-fly job filled with moving equipment in circles and constantly rethinking how we'll set everything up in our two downtown brick buildings (built roughly in the 1920's). Luckely things have been progressing! the shops producing and becomeing more efficient. So..... here's some pics. I'll post more as I take/find them.
Our main building. Originally an Elks Lodge when new. Houses Service and Assembly, Machine shop, Offices, parts dept, show room and store front, and shipping.
The 'annex' building. Been a radio station, bakery, and a bunch of other things. Houses our warehouse, woodshop, and random storage but will eventually hold our welding/fabrication shop and an extension shop to the Machining dept.
We're also temporarloy holding alot of inventory and machine shop equipment in a warehouse across town but hope to be able to consolidate it all under our own roof soon. The warehouse is kinda neat though. It's a large remaining shed from the railroad days and we've found some nifty artifacts there (tomato crates, locomotive parts, signal parts, 20's school books, ect.)
Now for the machines........ (note that some are repeats from previous threads but I'll try to keep them small)
Our main building. Originally an Elks Lodge when new. Houses Service and Assembly, Machine shop, Offices, parts dept, show room and store front, and shipping.
The 'annex' building. Been a radio station, bakery, and a bunch of other things. Houses our warehouse, woodshop, and random storage but will eventually hold our welding/fabrication shop and an extension shop to the Machining dept.
We're also temporarloy holding alot of inventory and machine shop equipment in a warehouse across town but hope to be able to consolidate it all under our own roof soon. The warehouse is kinda neat though. It's a large remaining shed from the railroad days and we've found some nifty artifacts there (tomato crates, locomotive parts, signal parts, 20's school books, ect.)
Now for the machines........ (note that some are repeats from previous threads but I'll try to keep them small)