[TheForge] Missing message?(shapers)

[Woolley]

Greetings,
I inherited one when I bought my shop.  I haven't really looked it over 
very closely but it is one of two surviving machines in the shop that is 
line/belt driven.  The previous owner used it to make his power hammer 
dies as well as other things I guess.  I have never seen one used but 
had hoped to explore it as I got the time.  I cant say that I know much 
about them so it has been good to read a little discussion on the list 
on the subject.

Regards,
Bill Woolley


xlch58 at swbell.net wrote:

> I have an old Ammco seven inch I wouldn't trade.   In fact the small 
> shapers go for quite a premium these days as they are a popular item 
> for home shop machinists.    You can do a lot of jobs on a shaper with 
> a hand ground piece of tool steel that would take several very 
> expensive cutters in a milling machine.   There are a few jobs in 
> gunmaking where the only alternative is essentially hand work.  The 
> larger 16 inch and up shapers are less popular due to their size, but 
> I know a fair number of people running them.  Shapers are still being 
> manufactured and sold ( and used) in India and China.   In fact, a 
> chinese company brought a large new one to a metalworking machinery 
> show in califirnia a couple of years ago, since it was being offered 
> for sale after the show at a machinery dealr ( guess they didn't get a 
> lot of orders at the show)
>
> Charles
>
> debmiller at fuse.net wrote:
>
>> Most of the ones i have seen in recent years have been pushed off 
>> into a corner and buried in junk. Many are scrapped. We use one in 
>> our Principles of Machining class at UC College of Applied Science, 
>> but that's only because most of our machine tools still have DOD tags 
>> from WWII and were donated by Cincinnati Milling Machine, later 
>> called Cincinnati Milaron. Now mostly defunct!!!
>>
>> Ray Miller
>> Cincinnati
>>  
>>
>
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