My work shop build in progress

[bindian]

Is the Niagara shear air powered?
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Is the Niagara shear air powered?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Frank Surber]

Is the Niagara shear air powered?
hugs, Brandi

No it is an old mechanical powered shear powered by something like a 10 to 20 hp electric motor with a huge gear reduction gear box

 

[EddieWalker]

Bigger is BETTER!!!!!

 

[Big Barn]

Bigger is BETTER!!!!!

 

[Frank Surber]

The old shear is actually more of a restoration project than something I could use right now. And I have a number of those on the table as it is .
The last time I saw it was back in 2018 when I bought it.
The first time I saw it it had ben pushed back in the weeds and left to rust away the table and knives have heavy surface rust on them but it would still function up and down by hand when using a screw driver to rotate the motor My guy moved it and covered it with a tarp but I don't know if he sprayed it down with oil or not

 

[bindian]

That looks like an old, nice piece of equipment. When ready to clean it up, spray a surface with LPS3, then lay a sheet or half a sheet of scotch brite on it and lay your disc sander or grinder on the scotch brite and spin the scotch brite until the rust is gone and it is shiny. This is what we did when I worked helicopter structures, every week. Works great, but is messy, as the LPS is slinging off the scotch brite pad.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Frank Surber]

That looks like an old, nice piece of equipment. When ready to clean it up, spray a surface with LPS3, then lay a sheet or half a sheet of scotch brite on it and lay your disc sander or grinder on the scotch brite and spin the scotch brite until the rust is gone and it is shiny. This is what we did when I worked helicopter structures, every week. Works great, but is messy, as the LPS is slinging off the scotch brite pad.
hugs, Brandi

I have a product that works 100 times better than LPS3
What I use to remove rust is KBS rust blast. I spray in on to wet the surface then reapply as many times as needed keeping the surface moist for large flat surfaces that only have a coating of surface rust and not deeply pitted I will spray it on then cover with shrink wrap after it is back to bare metal I Use KBS cavity coater this stuff is the exact same formulation of the stuff the Navy uses in cavities on aircraft that are impossible to otherwise treat for corrosion prevention it is a wax based product you can buff shine with it using the red or green industrial scotch brite pads as you mentioned once the natural bare iron color is back the surface will stay this way for months or even years just spray a thin film on and forget about it.
But you are correct about the LPS3 being a great product I used to use it by the gallons to protect wire ropes which were exposed to rain and snow on machinery and to protect against corrosion on machined parts which were not to be plated.
Currently I have an old Lathe stored on a trailer covered with a tarp coated with the Cavity coater the lathe is too large to remove from the trailer until I eventually pour the slab because I don't want to have to hire a crane more than one time. the lathe weighs 26,000 lbs. is 23 feet long and has a 56 inch swing over the ways 12 feet between the centers and has a 25 Hp motor it is about 10 feet tall and 5 feet wide

 

[ovrszd]

Now that's a Lathe!!!!

 

[Frank Surber]

Now that's a Lathe!!!!

I own 5 lathes that one obviously is the largest its brand name is American made by the American tool works made sometime during the 1940's
A LeBlond 26x48 circa 1953, a LeBlond 19x60 circa 1952 a LeBlond 16inch x40 trainer made in 1917 and a Sheldon 13x36 dated 1956
Then there is my Cincinnati #2 horizontal mill an American Vertical mill which is kind of a bigger brother to a Bridgeport j head a Cleereman 36" jig bore drill press a 6 head Lealand Gifford drill press, a 1960 W.M Johnston 12x12 3 Hp band saw, and a 1912 Champion Forge camel back drill press, From there the shop machines become more mundane a couple more floor model drill presses 4 more band saw may 5 I don't know exactly as some are still stored in one of my trailers along with half a dozen welding machines and other forgotten machines Plus the machines I have built like a sheet metal roll 6"x 54" rollers capable of rolling 3/16" mild steel a 7 ft folding break 10ga cap, and you no doubt noticed the large-ish A frame gantry I made out of 6" sch 80 pipe that is 15 ft tall and 12 ft wide it can easily support 10 tons or more
To say I have the OCD of TAS (tool acquisition syndrome) is only limited by the size of my retirement income
a few pictures of some of the machines