What is that old open case 1 lunger under the bench there? I have a friend with a bunch of them.. some really massive ones too (36" flywheels)
I thought my bench was bad, but it just really doesn't compare.. there are good days and bad days of course..
You should have seen our old shop.. perhaps that's worthy of a picture.
Good eye.
That's a first-year 1 1/2 hp Gilson "Johnny on the spot" engine from 1913. That one is my Wifes, we've had it for oh jeez about 20 years I guess? If you look real carefully at the left end of the workbench just to the right of the drill press, you'll spot the back end of an old old goulds water pump on the bench. It's a good sized sucker (boo, bad pun...) that is both belt drive and manually driven by a big ol lever that you could stand there and push-pull back and forth. Plan was, and still is I guess, to restore that pump and belt it to the Gilson if we ever get back into doing the shows. One fun project we always talked about doing was running a big ice cream maker off that Gilson engine too. Thinking the further along we get, the better some fresh, scratch-made ice cream sounds...
Here's an ad, and a u-tube link to someone else's running:
http://buzzcoil.brinkster.net/gilson/adv1913a.jpg (click the link for the ad to open up)
We've had a number of them over the years, passed all of them along except for hers which you see there under the bench and two Galloway engines of mine - one a 3 hp the other either a 5 or 6 I can't remember. Hope to have the larger one running a saw at our CT GTG in November.