1945 Walker Turner 32 sp DP

[Intheshop]

Look at the craftsman 618 sq way lathe bed on the back of this DP.Any of y'all with a mill,start surfing fleabay for one of these.....

Square ways,which is also what that air/hyd uuuuh,ridiculously $$$ vise is sporting(it's twin lives on the Bridgeport).They kinda fall out of favor cause of the expense of grinding 4 surfaces vs a "V". That's 3k$ worth of W German vise BTW.

The C-man lathe bed was 2 cases of beer $,just sayin.BW

 

[KeithB]

Nice equipment! I have a Walker-Turner upright bandsaw. Very solidly built. I think Rockwell bought them out.

 

[Intheshop]

Thanks.Thats a W/T 14" combo wood metal behind DP.It uses a reasonably sophisticated gearbox for blade speed reduction cutting metal,vs jackshafts/pulleys.16" '39 woodwacker in cab shop that is minty.The 1939 part is very strange within W/T "lore".

The thing I find most interesting is folks interested in equipment, new or old...... but won't drive ___ miles to either scope it out or get it?Shoot,I'd drive 10hrs one way for the right pce.Reckon it's the ole craiglist thing,"free lawnmower".... and the buyer asks if you can deliver it?Haha

 

[KeithB]

Wow, I missed the bandsaw in the back. What I can see looks a lot like mine. I got mine from a furniture store that used it in their maintenance shop. It was set up for wood, too high a blade speed for metal, so I made a pair of four-step pulleys and found a right angle gear reducer to put in the drive train. It reduces the speed down to about the same range as my metal cutoff saw. The frame is heavy enough for metal work. I have remade the blade guide wheels, the original used a roller bearing with a super thick outer race. The new ones use standard bearings pressed into a hardened collar. Works fine!

 

[Intheshop]

Sounds good,what metal are you cutting with it?

Ours is setup for cutting SS exhaust tubing.Look up images of Burns (SS,inc) "merge collectors".

There's a 14,16,and 20 inchers in the woodwackin shop.The 14 is a '37 Milwaukee Delta. We keep it setup with narrow contour blades.Nothing fancy,just keeps running.

Got a REALLY nice old C-man horizontal small metal cutoff saw.We use a 7X12 gearhead in the machine shop that is well loved,meaning it's filthy with swarf.I got the little C-man to do sumthin with?Between the bigger saw and a portaband,just don't use it.Shipping would prolly kill the deal but would take 100$ for it.I'll take some pics of it later.

 

[KeithB]

We mostly cut aluminum of all thicknesses and thin steel, occasionally plastic or wood. It's not a precision or production tool, just handy to have when making oddball things like notching 2x2s to hold shafting w/o it rolling around. When we get the new shop built we plan to have a small woodworking area, mostly to build crating and such, not planning on doing carpentry of any sort for a living. Got some tools in storage for that.

 

[Intheshop]

1962-64 Remington research & development dept pic. This was the forerunner to their "custom shop". The gentleman in the foreground setting up the deep hole drilling "lathe" is a,Mr. Smiley.....His son,and gson worked there as well.

I was doing research on Remington "RKW" finish,and exactly when it started.Mr Smiley (#2) commented on his and his dad's involvement building Marine sniper rifles back in the day..... did,sorta get the answer to my question. The finish was actually Dupont RK series,in this instance.... RK-1704. Apparently once it hit Remington ad men,it became "RKW". It was NOT a catylized finish that I always assumed..... as one of the other posters brought to light.

The pic below is not only for above backstory, but if you look dead center..... there's a Walker Turner "pattern makers" DP like this thread OP. Not sure what they're doing with it but suspect a couple things. 1, the heads are heavy so cranking elevation isn't for the meek.... meaning they get run with fixtures like the Cman 618 in previous post. #2 is,they can be looked at as an ace up the sleeve as far as drilling ops go.... which in the world of pattern making does crop up occasionally. Good chance it got ordered for their R&D shop as a "just in case" machine.

 

[Intheshop]

Further,it is in the center of their toolroom. From a "practical" standpoint,this makes sense as well. Referring back to the OP pic,look at the real estate afforded by the W/T table...... you can unlock and swing the head.This leaves a dang near football field size layout table.

W/T was noted for their cast iron grinding accuracy. Which has as much to do with "aging" as it does with the grinding equipment. So,not only is this drill table accurately ground.... because of the mass it's dang stable too.

 

[Bret4207]

My Dad took a Craftsman 6-18/Atlas 6" lathe and put 2 beds together. So we had an Atlas 6-36. I've abused the snot out of the poor thing turning things far heavier and coarser than was likely ever intended by the people making it. I really need to get at least a 12 or 13" lathe. 15 or 16" wouldn't be out of the question, but they just get so darn big and I have no space already.

 

[Intheshop]

Bret,I'm sorta out of the machine biz because of health issues.....

Forget the lathe's "brand" but,there was a deal a cpl months ago that had my name on it. Guy buys this "classic" 1940's survivor 13x30? 3500lb chunk of American arn. Admits to being in over his head with not only the weight,but a few other areas of concern as well.He "locks" up the gear train in the apron and busts a cpl teeth off a spur gear...... which fall out the bttm of cover.

He paid 16-1800,or sum such..... and after the very unfortunate wreck,is giving it away for say,enough beer or scotch? to get his mind right again. Just sayin,a cpl hundred and we're getting the rigging equipment out. The pce was a few hours S of me. I told the wife about it..... she sympathizes,then right back to not giving a $hit. I'd have it figured out and fixed before lunch.

13X30 with enough balls to make a .200" depth of cut in mild steel.That,and because it doesn't do high speed,and shortness of bed.... has seen it living a rather charmed life since the 70's. Kinda like an original flat head Ford with 10k miles on it that your Gmother had in the estate wagon? And she gives it to you.....

 

[Bret4207]

I trained on a LeBlond 13x60 IIRC. Going from that to the little Atlas was like going from my F350 to an early 70's Datsun pickup. They're both trucks, but.....

I've been watching for something local I could swing, never seemed to line up availability with cash on hand at the same time. Missed out on a
"3 fer" some years back, 13" lathe, vertical Bport type mill and a horizontal mill for some crazy low price. Fell apart when the price turned out to actually be crazy because the old guy selling them was, in fact, crazy! Wouldn't have looked any too good for a Trooper to be buying from a nutso old man who also happened to be selling guns on a revoked FLL to anyone that walked in the door, and this was his second or 3rd conviction for that. Ah, didn't have the room anyway.