New Tool coming home soon!

[Brent H]

Wow Tom,

I picked it up today!! And guess what - more tooling I received 3 more 50 tapers I think for holding slitting saw type stuff and a vice with a calibrated knuckle. Couple other small jigs

The move had some pucker factor .....the wonderful lady selling it had coordinated a fork truck and driver who slid it out of the shop. I had him put it on a hardwood pallet for cement blocks and then loaded it into the back of a 5 ton dump trailer. Strapped it all down and loaded the extra stuff. Drive home (2.5 hrs) went well until I hit a few massive bumps around @trlvn place. Nothing seemed off until I got home and noticed the straps a bit slack. Well, the Cincie has smashed through the one side of the pallet and was sitting at about a 10° list to starboard. There was a few FFS comments and ah Sh**s and after a bit of inspection- all was good. My neighbour was over with his fork truck and we set to righting the ship. I used the provided lifting holes, straps and some 1” pipe. We picked it up straight with the fork truck on the straps and I was able to pull out the broken pallet and insert a new one. Whew!!! Moved it into the garage after a preliminary misting of WD40. I will follow up with some pics later. I didn’t take any of the move as it was raining when I was tarping it for the start of the move and the end of the move was busy to say the least.

today was the day to move as Ontario is setting up for lock down. The fork driver was loosing his job tomorrow as was a few other folks in the area. Grabbing the sharpener today helped out the lady big time as she can now move the remaining tools to her garage and finish her building sale.
Now comes the cleaning !!

 

[Tom Kitta]

Even better for you. She essentially given it to you for free.

 

[Tom O]

Definitely a nice find! You have to love Kijiji I just picked up a shear for angle iron for $25.00.

 

[Dabbler]

Well, the Cincie has smashed through the one side of the pallet

wow! you got off very well! When I had my big mill shipped, the original vendor had it on a nearly-collapsed pallet. So the shipper just lifted the whole mess onto another pallet and banded it down. During the shipping, the top pallet collapsed more, and the strapping was lose. Similar close call. Lots of pucker to use pry bar and blocking to get it off those 2 pallets!

I just picked up a shear for angle iron for $25.00.

Tom, you lucky dog! THey are as rare as hens's teeth! I've been scanning for one for a couple years! well done!

 

[trlvn]

@Brent H did you figure out how much that beast weighs? When there is a big cast iron base involved, I throw up my hands! Even the 3/4 HP motor on it looked like it was a tank.

Craig

 

[Tom Kitta]

Mine has like 2hp motor - big. Its heavy like over 1000 lbs.

 

[Tom O]

Dabbler this is it here it’s a Dixion mark 3.

 

[Brent H]

this machine has a 3/4 HP 3 phase and I think just the motor is stamped 1000 lbs


I will see what I can find. I am missing a gear in the slow move handle

 

[YYCHM]

this machine has a 3/4 HP 3 phase and I think just the motor is stamped 1000 lbs

A 1000 lb motor Where's the pictures you promised Brent!

 

[Brent H]

@YYCHobbyMachinist : busy day wood working in the shop today hollowing out some 10 x 10 post wraps but here are some pic’s. hand-wheels are 8” diameter. Some wear on feed nuts but we can remake those. Missing: 2 gears in the slow feed handle. Working on replacements. 3 more 50 taper adapters, bunch of stuff in the parts washer to figure out.

 

[Brent H]

So I was able to get one of the gears off Ebay - part 75247. I am now in pursuit of Cincinnati No 2 tool cutter grinder part # 75248. This is a double ended gear spool. I might be able to make up an assembly once I get the eBay gear and can do a good measure up.

sadly the eBay seller already sold off the other gear - bummer.

 

[Brent H]

If you look at picture 4 you can see the one handle that is off. The two missing gears are located in there.

 

[Dabbler]

@Tom O way to go - a really nice find!