Interesting vertical shaping attachment for Bridgeport up for auction

[Crankit]

A Bridgeport Shaper head made for one of their milling machines up for auction in Victoria....I've never seen or heard of one of these!
https://www.bcauction.ca/open.dll/welcome?language=En

Item #44

 

[YYCHM]

Also known as a "Tete a sloter switch defecteuse"

 

[Brent H]

@YYCHM - you rock brother!!!

My "tete a sloter" awaits a mounting bracket - fixed the switch defectuse rather easy and have a VFD to power it. my government firewall will not let me view the auction but make sure it comes with the mounting bracket!!!

 

[YYCHM]

Current bid $308, 14 bids so far.

Closes 2021/11/15

 

[YYCHM]

Current bid $1153.80, 24 bids

Ends 2021/11/15 20:15

 

[Brent H]

Holy smokes! I paid $280 all in for mine - not a "bridgeport" but that is a lot!

 

[YYCHM]

Holy smokes! I paid $280 all in for mine - not a "bridgeport" but that is a lot!

I thought so to.

 

[YYCHM]

Only a day left guys. Could be yours for paltry $1178.80

 

[140mower]

Beautiful B.C. does come with a price tag..... I am glad that I have most of the tools I could ever want... But I am sure that the bottom will fall out of the market about the time I am ready to sell.

 

[YotaBota]

I'm hoping I wear out at about the same time as my tools, that way I won't care what they're worth,lol

 

[YYCHM]

4 hours to go and this thing is up to $2175 now

 

[Brent H]

@YYCHM : that is a desperate buyer.....WOW! I would bet that if mine had not of been called a Tete a Sloter it would have been more then me putting in a bid! hahaha

 

[Redneck_Sophistication]

Handtool
Rescue popularized these I guess lol

I always heard these are all brand new cuz no one ever used them!

 

[YYCHM]

Done..... $2600 38 bids

 

[Brent H]

Wow!!

I have 5 projects lined up for mine!!

$2600 is a complete Bridgeport with some tools in On. Dang!!

 

[Tomc938]

Or you could just buy a whole shaper for that...

 

[YYCHM]

Or you could just buy a whole shaper for that...

You could buy two or three shapers for that

 

[140mower]

You could buy two or three shapers for that

... I got my first one for free and paid $175 for the second one. However, I haven't seen many for sale recently, and they sure weren't cheap when I have.
On a lighter note, I had some work done at a local shop awhile back, when I got home the wife asked how bad the bill was. I told her "well dear, there's two things in life that are cheap..... You, and me."..

 

[Tom Kitta]

Yeah that went a bit over the top - for 2600 one can contemplate spending few weeks and building one from scratch. Or just few days and making an adapter for one of your machines.