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[ttyR2]

Picked this up last weekend:

An old school Cincinnati 8" grinder, 1/2HP. Runs awesome (and was free).

 

[blackoak]

Picked this up last weekend:

An old school Cincinnati 8" grinder, 1/2HP. Runs awesome (and was free).

That's a good one. They don't make them like that anymore. I have 3 old school grinders that I use every day. Ones is a Wissota , one is a huge 2hp Delta Rockwell. I have a 12" sanding disc on one end of it and the other end has a 12" wire buffing wheel . The other is marked US Tool Company. It has to be at least 65 years old, but works like a new one. It has a cast iron base. It and the delta both weigh close to a 100lbs

 

[WesternSaw]

Joe and ttyR2

Both of you have made great finds there.YAHOO!
This weekend I had some good finds myself,I think.I'm very poor at getting to post up pictures but I will try to get them up soon.
Lawrence

 

[Johny Utah]

That's a good one. They don't make them like that anymore. I have 3 old school grinders that I use every day. Ones is a Wissota , one is a huge 2hp Delta Rockwell. I have a 12" sanding disc on one end of it and the other end has a 12" wire buffing wheel . The other is marked US Tool Company. It has to be at least 65 years old, but works like a new one. It has a cast iron base. It and the delta both weigh close to a 100lbs

What are you grinding, cinder blocks and steel ingots or what, lol

 

[promac850]

What are you grinding, cinder blocks and steel ingots or what, lol

No, he's grinding coughfee beans... :bulgy-eyes:

I did get my paws on two old Black and Decker all metal saws. They still work, but the pto bearings are shot on both of them, so they don't cut straight... hmm... replace those bearings and run them for another God knows how long...

At work (yes, I have a job now!!) we run an old Dayton 3/4 hp grinder, also some old tools like a huge ass 5hp 120? gallon two stage compressor... forgot what brand, will report tomorrow, and some other tools. Most of the stuff is newer, like the Snap-Off boxes and the tools in the boxes.

(sorry, I am not going to take pics, unless my boss allows me to...will ask when I have worked for him a little longer... today was my second day working for him) I, personally, wouldn't want an employee to take pics of my equipment. (unless they are a true diehard honest person that I have known basically forever)

 

[joe25DA]

Nice Grinder TTR2. I agree with Blackoak, cant beat old school build quality. I have a 1976 WISSOTA Grinder. My Grandfather bought it new. He had a small machine shop at his house, only bought heavy duty industrial tools.
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[7oaks]

Pretty big saw

Haven't posted to this thread in quite a while so when I was using this saw some time back I took these pictures to share:

It is a the largest circular saw I know of - Makita 16". I bought it years ago to cut railroad ties. When I needed to trim this spalted maple beam I was happy to bring it out of retirement!

 

[promac850]

Nice Makita...

The compressor we use at work is a Curtis Challengeair... 5hp, 120 gallon... I don't know the shop pressure, but it's probably 175 or so psi. It fills up tires fast... real fast. Less than a minute to raise a tire from less than 10 psi to 40 psi.

I can't wait to run the Husky compressor... first I gotta get all of those damn tools put away into boxes and then I'll have room to run wiring and such. Still a bit busy around here.

 

[WesternSaw]

Makita16 inch saw

That's one nice piece of equipment you have there Carl.They often get passed by at garage sales as not a lot of the younger types are interested in purchasing
Lawrence

 

[promac850]

Is this old compressor worth more than 100 bucks?

I kinda think it may be...

 

[WesternSaw]

Old air compressor

Is this old compressor worth more than 100 bucks?

I kinda think it may be...

ProMac, It seems like it is in awesome shape.Price wise I wouldn't have a clue
Lawrence

 

[promac850]

Well guys, I finally got most of the wiring for the big ass Husky done... just need to connect the breaker in the breaker box, punch out two slots, etc. Minor touching up.

Then what I have to do is run the air hoses... they will be on the ceiling, and run to drop points, one near the middle of the big area, and one near the big door that leads outside.

Ah, this will be worth it.

Anyone happen to have an old complete working industrial motor starter/switch box laying around? One for single phase 3.2 running HP, 220/230 volt?

I'm just hoping to gather one up to wire into the circuit, so I don't have to be flipping the breaker or the auto switch on and off all the time. The auto/off switch on the compressor is 25 or so feet and a wall away from where I'll normally be working, and the breaker would probably not like being flipped millions of times...

I will have very little 10/2 left over, it fit about perfectly.

I will see about that shiny little compressor. If I can get it for 100 bucks or hopefully a little less, I will. (lol, piss off my parents... I can do that... )

Or if any of you want it, holler. I wouldn't mind working out a deal with shipping, small finder's fee, etc.

 

[promac850]

Well, I got up at 6:20 ish this morning, cause the dog woke me up...

Couldn't fall back asleep, so I simply got up, got dressed and ate breakfast...

Ran out to the barn and finished the wiring on the compressor... flipped main breaker off, popped the 20 amp 240V breaker in, ran the wire into the top of the box, hooked up the wires where they need to go, and then flipped the main back on, checked voltages with the multimeter, and checked again at the compressor control switch... perfect 240 volts, 120 form each hot to neutral...

So then I went back to the breaker box, and slapped the cover back on, then flipped the switch on the compressor from 'Off' to 'Auto'... fired right up, and took about 2 minutes to get to 135 psi from 0.

I used the thing all day today... I missed having a good compressor (hell, this one totally kicks the previous little 25 gallon compressor's ass!!) to run the air sander, etc.

She's broken in now, takes only about 50 seconds to get to 135 psi from 60 psi... I'd say that's pretty damn good for the money...

Still on the pallet, and does not move at all. Sure, she vibrates a lot, but definitely will not move, tip over or anything like that.

Ran the little air sander all day for a couple of projects... damn, does that thing make rust removal and cleaning of steel easy!!! It's fricking awesome!!

 

[WesternSaw]

Air Compressor- ProMac

Yahoo!!!Way to go ProMac!!
Lawrence

 

[Warped5]

Geez ProMac, you can sure paint a picture ....

Dog woke you up .... your dog must know mine. Except different time zone, so that explains the 0520 wake up nose here.

Ran out to the barn ... before 0700? Yeah, right!

But I am quite happy you got that compressor going .... single best thing a shop can have, IMHO. :msp_thumbup:

Still figuring out how I can shoehorn one into my pillbox-sized garage .... maybe time for new house .... LMAO

 

[promac850]

Geez ProMac, you can sure paint a picture ....

Dog woke you up .... your dog must know mine. Except different time zone, so that explains the 0520 wake up nose here.

Ran out to the barn ... before 0700? Yeah, right!

But I am quite happy you got that compressor going .... single best thing a shop can have, IMHO. :msp_thumbup:

Still figuring out how I can shoehorn one into my pillbox-sized garage .... maybe time for new house .... LMAO

Lol, that's true, I ain't did not running to the barn that morning...

Yep, an air compressor is a must have... if you ain't got one, you're missing a lot, even if the compressor you get is a tiny pancake, you'll soon realize how handy it is to blow dust around, and air up tires, run a framing nailer, etc.

It only takes up about a 4x4 foot space with the pallet... if you bolted it right to the floor (don't forget the vibration absorbing pads) it would take up a bit less. It stands about 6 feet tall on the skid, so about 5.5 or so without the skid. 10.2 scfm at 90 psi... ####s off at 135 psi, kicks on at 90...

I may turn the pressure up yet... should I run it to the max, and then back off 20 or so psi from there? I heard single stage compressors tend to max out around 150? psi.

I changed the oil (broke her in yesterday... been running on and off all day...)

Beware, this thing is loud... I mean loud... so much so that standing anywhere near it makes conversations nearly impossible. I have it in the other side of our pile barn, so when the thing is running, and the door to the other side is shut, you can't hardly hear the thing cramming air molecules into a tank to make 135 psi pressure levels... also, if you run this thing a lot, that tank, the whole thing gets pretty warm... I reckon those air molecules really don't like being crammed into the tank of air compressor...

I am going to have to get an air desiccant/water trap dryer... it does make water... lots of it. So one of those will be bought when I can drop the money on it.

 

[Brmorgan]

So apparently my top boss (one of the brothers that owns the mill) has been happy with my work on the sawmill infeed rebuild project, and has requested that I stay on maintenance/fabrication full time now. So I'm not gonna be going back to sitting on a stool grading lumber for 10 hours a day! Which is a catch-22, because maintenance can be a crap job in the extreme weather. But ultimately they want me running maintenance for the planer and shavings bagger, which is mostly indoors; a bit more temperate and a lot less dusty/dirty than the sawmill. At least not so monotonous as grading anyway, and hopefully it can work into a millwright ticket if I stay long enough and can make the schooling happen.

Anyway, one of the other guys who's been welding with me at work had a spare really nice mask he's been bugging me to buy off him, so since this is gonna be a fairly permanent job, I decided to treat myself to a birthday present a week early:

It's a Sperian Optrel 680, one of the best out there. He paid over $400 locally (I looked online and they go for about $350 or more there) for it and used it for a couple weeks until another guy bought one exactly the same, then he got all like a girl with a dress and went out and dropped a few hundred on a new Miller Elite just to be different again. So I'm paying him half of new for a mask that pretty much IS new, just a couple minor scratches to the hood itself, not the lenses, and I couldn't possibly care less if someone else has one identical. I'd used one of these before a couple times, since my supervisor in the planer has one. It's like High-Def welding compared to the old noname cheapo I've been using. The biggest difference is that it has a natural shade, so that you can still see more or less the actual colors of things instead of everything just being tinted a very dark green. It also has the Grind setting which my old one didn't, and goes all the way down to a DIN 5 shade if I ever got into TIG welding later on, so if I take care of it this should really be the last mask I'll need for a looooong while.

Man, is that Grind setting handy! All it does is keep the sensor from tripping, so you can grind or use a cutting torch etc. with the default shade of the lens (seems a bit lighter than a 4?). It's not the easiest button to hit with gloves on, but it's nice to have that full face/neck coverage when using the angle grinder and it's just as fast to take a glove off as it is to be flipping the mask up and down all the time.

So I dunno, I suppose it's not a "tool" as such, but definitely essential to the job, so I thought I'd post it here for the fellow metalheads. What do you guys think? Deal or no deal?

 

[Brmorgan]

Lol, that's true, I ain't did not running to the barn that morning...

Yep, an air compressor is a must have... if you ain't got one, you're missing a lot, even if the compressor you get is a tiny pancake, you'll soon realize how handy it is to blow dust around, and air up tires, run a framing nailer, etc.

It only takes up about a 4x4 foot space with the pallet... if you bolted it right to the floor (don't forget the vibration absorbing pads) it would take up a bit less. It stands about 6 feet tall on the skid, so about 5.5 or so without the skid. 10.2 scfm at 90 psi... ####s off at 135 psi, kicks on at 90...

I may turn the pressure up yet... should I run it to the max, and then back off 20 or so psi from there? I heard single stage compressors tend to max out around 150? psi.

I changed the oil (broke her in yesterday... been running on and off all day...)

Beware, this thing is loud... I mean loud... so much so that standing anywhere near it makes conversations nearly impossible. I have it in the other side of our pile barn, so when the thing is running, and the door to the other side is shut, you can't hardly hear the thing cramming air molecules into a tank to make 135 psi pressure levels... also, if you run this thing a lot, that tank, the whole thing gets pretty warm... I reckon those air molecules really don't like being crammed into the tank of air compressor...

I am going to have to get an air desiccant/water trap dryer... it does make water... lots of it. So one of those will be bought when I can drop the money on it.

So I'm just presuming here... But did you actually type a "d" instead of a "k" there, and the AS censor gods didn't like it? LOL... I didn't know compressors could do that...

 

[Brmorgan]

While I'm at it, I should put up a pic I took last week of the project as it is now:

Where the two big log sorters were situated to place the stepfeeder in the pic a few weeks ago, there is now a couple hundred truckloads of fill and gravel comprising the new ramp to the deck/stepfeeder, which is about 15' up from the old level. The purpose of the new infeed is to be able to sort logs according to size, and you can see three of the four sort bins in the foreground of this pic. In the arch at the far center-left (in front of the big bucksaw) is mounted a pair of 24" scanners which measure the diameter of each log about every foot or so and determines an average size, and kicks it into the appropriate bin or sends it straight into the main infeed deck of the mill itself right before the debarkers. We've been running it this week, and there are still bugs to work out and stuff to polish off, but it's working so far. It's been pretty neat to be involved with a project like this from start to finish. And kinda rewarding to be able to say, I built that! Along with many others, of course, but thinking back on it I actually did do a lot of layout and design and structural stuff, whereas some of the other guys were stuck for days at a time just welding long seams in sheet metal all day long; there was plenty of sheeting around the waste conveyors, and the whole infeed deck got a solid 1/2" sheet so that the loader can drive right on to straighten logs out etc. I spent a couple like that, but not so much. I put up a lot of posts and supports and did a lot of figuring out lengths and cuts etc., and spent almost a week just around the bucksaw fitting sheets for the conveyor trough and to catch the dust from the blade. Spent a couple days just building handrail too; that was a bit monotonous, and tedious welding 1/8" squaretube with 1/8" 7018 rod! Burns through really easy; you're supposed to use 3/32, but I'm too lazy to be going and turning the welder up and down all the time. hehe...

Found this fella at work a few days ago:

As you can probably tell, he was PIZZED! I let him go right away after taking the pic, though being the middle of the day he was a bit stunned. Almost flew into the big exhaust fan in the mill! That would have been ugly.

 

[WesternSaw]

Yo Brad

Great to see you posting in the thread!Looks like you are advancing in your work life, that's awesome.Go for that millwright ticket if you can, you will be able to use it any place.PLEASE,PLEASE!!!!
make sure you lockout around that machinery,I don't want to see anything happen to you.
Shoot me an email when you have time
Lawrence