weld shop clean out job and other Keweenaw sites

[TMGT]

I have in the past, completely restored a South Bend bench lathe with quick change back gears and it took me 3 years. Too old to fiddle with that stuff anymore, don't have the time. It's completely tooled right down to the 3C Collet closer. Did a South Bend cabinet mount shaper too. Takes way too much time that I don't have. I prefer buying new machines or used ones that were taken care of. Got a very nice LeBlond Servo Shift toolroom lathe that way and a 10 foot long bed Taiwanese built engine lathe too

Don't do the out in the elements rusted stuff. To me, the only value is scrap value. and most likely the machines were beat in the first place.

Got the lathe out of a local high school that cancelled their shop classes. Stll had the cosmoline on the ways. Got it for 500 bucks. Of course I had to pay a machinery mover to move it and set it in my shop. Moved the LeBlond myself and both my Bridgeports. One is a versa Trak. Last year I bought a new Kent toolroom surface grinder that gets a lot of use. I fabbed up a jig for sharpening wood chipper blades and I have a steady flow of them. All the local arborists drop their knives here for me to dress. Just upped my price to 75 cents per inch. Inflation you know. Set the Kent myself as well. Brought it in on pipe rollers and put the anti vibe pads on it and levered it off the pipes. Took some time to level it in 2 axis', same with the lathes. I use a set of LS Starrett machinery levels good within 0.003 per lineal foot.

My shop is 40 x 40, heated and air conditioned and one side has an overhead hoist too. Keep my motorcycles in it, the vehicles have their own garage as does the farm tractors.

I've rebuilt a few lathes and mills for personal use, these days I need to work with the equipment more then work on it. My personal shop makes a little side money but mostly it's for personal use.
Company's shop is a different story!

Hopefully I'll be building a new 45x63 shop soon, just moved and left my 40x50, really miss having a wide open shop, current one is divided up.


I use a couple Starret 98-12 for equipment setup, one day I'll get 199Z!
What model level do you have? Not familiar with one that reads .003 per ft.

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[2manyrocks]

Do you know what happened to the shop? Did the owner go out of business? Was this stuff inside the building and then another tenant moved it outside?

 

[5030]

I've rebuilt a few lathes and mills for personal use, these days I need to work with the equipment more then work on it. My personal shop makes a little side money but mostly it's for personal use.
Company's shop is a different story!

Hopefully I'll be building a new 45x63 shop soon, just moved and left my 40x50, really miss having a wide open shop, current one is divided up.


I use a couple Starret 98-12 for equipment setup, one day I'll get 199Z!
What model level do you have? Not familiar with one that reads .003 per ft.

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I'm in the house not the shop so I'd have to go out and look at them (I have a pair). Keep them in the boxes all the time in one of my Gerstner tool boxes.

 

[5030]

Looks to me like whomever owned that place was a collector of old machinery with the intent of maybe rebuilding it, but never got around to it. I also have a lot of stock like die plate and piping outside but it's all on skids and tarped up. Mother nature is always corroding steel and cast. Never stops. One picture I thought was interesting was the strip steel uncoiler. Kind of wonder where the rest of that line is. An uncoiler without the machines to process it is pretty useless. unless the owner visited machinery auctions a lot.

 

[Thomas]

A few more pics were processed. (edited)

Just the other day, I was welding up a little project and it was just to heavy to roller over. What do I need?
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Saw still works (see the dom in it?)
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Lot of priceless iron.

 

[5030]

No, it all has a per pound price actually.

 

[herm0016]

the lift was built right down the road from you I imagine. are they still in Braga? is it up on the hill above Houghton? an old mine building?

 

[ArlyA]

Do you know what happened to the shop? Did the owner go out of business? Was this stuff inside the building and then another tenant moved it outside?

We had two telehandlers in our area at the time they closed down. Baraga MI to be exact! One was JBL or was it JCE? but the other is Pettibone who is still there today. The other manufacturer moved away and left the parts builders in a bind so this shop closed. I'm sure they tried to sell the whole place but with no offers, parted out much of the equipment and my boss owns whats left today and I'm cleaning up the area. I did come across a large and interesting machine and I could not identify it. Will post pics later.

 

[ArlyA]

More pics for you fellows taken today. What is this loader looking device made for? Looks like a small tractor loader but I don't think that's what it is.... More pic later and some pics taken inside today.

My boss just texted me and told me....

 

[ArlyA]

Yet another Bullard vertical lathe. How many do you need?? And who's going to guess what the HP is on that motor?