I absolutely love old machinery. I see some of the audio gets drowned out there in the middle with all the racket but there ain’t nothing wrong with that, I’m just rambling anyway.
If you like old machinery like I do, I hope you enjoy this little quickie.
I was given one kind of like that years ago. I think mine was home made though
rusty as hell. parts missing, but it worked and saved me a lot of time with a hacksaw for sure. still have it in the shed. I used a 4by 6 horror fright bandsaw
now. motor died about 2 years in, swapped it out with a Balor 1 HP one and
it has worked well ever since. my buddy ran a scrap yard and I got a lot of goodies
for next to nothing from him. like the Balor motor. I think there are still 4 more in the shed. one of these days I get around to fixing that old one up. but it still works.
they are neat to watch though aren’t they ?
like watching my Atlas shaper. back and forth they go.
my grandson likes the shaper. he run it just to watch it work on scrap. relaxing
Around cottonseed oilmills, a common sight was Marvel hacksaw. Old as dirt but still worked.
Cottonseed crush plants are no longer a common sight. I think there are less than ten still operating in the United States these days.
That’s cool. Got a buzz saw and 4 blades. I’ve had a dozen people ask about the blades. Wanna paint them. Their kicking rocks. Two of them are sharpened and ready for service. Old stuff is the best. Tried and true beats new and improved every time
I think I’ve seen exactly ONE of those in operation, and it was a looong time ago!
I worked on an estate on the Maine coast decades ago that was built in the 1920’s.
It was a 26 room “cabin” on the coast that had been battered by a storm and there were literal small boulders in their living room.
We restored the window sash, doors, siding and trim and repaired the slate roof. among several other period renovations (our specialty).
One of the buildings was a three car garage with chauffers quarters above and an attached shop for repairing everything.
The shop was filled with period machinery; cast iron and painted black, in pristine condition, probably rarely used and the thing I remember the most is the entire shop was run by a gas generator.
When turned on, the generator would run all the machines at once by a series of leather belts. Table saw, bandsaw, lathe and planer.
I love old tools.
I think there has to be a part of Heaven that’s like that for folks like us…sigh. Scarecrow
Phil, loved the video, love the machine. Don’t know why but something about that old machinery makes me grin ear-to-ear; like seeing a ’53 Chevy still out on the roads. Hope you’re doing well; you’re in my prayers when i remember them (just bein’ honest). scarecrow
I have one of those out in my shop that looks just like that except the label says Craftsman. I just ran out to look Haven’t used it in probably 30 years but it worked fine then. I use a bandsaw instead. —ken
An interesting bit of trivia for you. Dunlap was the machinery buyer for Sears way back in the day so they honored him with his own line of machinery.
There is a tag on the back of this thing with SEARS on it.
old Sears sold a lot of neat stuff back in the day. my Atlas/Craftsman metal lathe is one. also my 10 table saw is a old Sears model- like 1952-3 model. my air compressor is a old Sears model. bought new in 1972 for 159 bucks.
yes, I still have the paperwork on it. my mom told me to get a 3 ring binder to keep track of the tools I was buying and to keep the paperwork in one spot. still have it downstairs.
I miss the old Sears.
The loss of the old Sears was a national tragedy.
Yep, that’s really neat. It looks like it’s in remarkably good condition, too.
I love those oilers. They always make me think of a steam locomotive.
You know what might work great for your missing part is the foot pad (?) off of an old c-clamp. The end of the screw on a c-clamp has a ball just like that and depending on the size of the clamp the size of the ball varies too. I’ll bet you can find one that’s just right.
Damn, many times I could have used something like that. I to love old machinery because it will last
Last saw one of those in 1982 back when Metal Shop class was still a thing. It had an “automatic” shutoff even. When it cut thru the metal, the arm would drop down on a lever & that would smack the off switch. Almost the whole thing sat in a oil tray cause it had an automatic oiler for the cut. Didn’t need it for small angle iron, but for things like 4inch HRS, kept the blade from cooking itself.
When I took cabinet making in Hi Skool the metal shop next door had a power hacksaw like that. We had a bandsaw and could put a metal cutting blade in it, but I liked the hacksaw next door much better.