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Firstram said:
I didn’t say I don’t have 5 kick ass old school workhorses :smokin:
My favorite being this Reed 406! I paid $350 for it.
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Nice. Paid $200 for this one with the bench which is actually a pretty decent bench too.

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Went picking with some friends yesterday. Always good when your buddy asks "can you bring your track loader, I found us a really good deal on a lot of good heavy stuff, but its in a dirt lot with collapsing shipping containers." Needed a second trailer to haul the skid steer to the unloading point.
Not pictured are two big 1 Ton jib cranes that we also picked up. I'll post more pictures as I go through this stuff.

30 Foot Big Tex 16GN - It was 8100 lbs of steel.
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Everything except for the Columbian and USC (back right corner) on this Acorn table was part of the deal, including the 09-600 Wilton Bullet. The table is 5' x 5' with 1-3/4" square holds, for scale. Large gloves tossed in for scale. Thats a 1-1/2" drive snap on hiding in there. This is just my stuff and doesn't show the array of stuff my friends acquired too. There is a big Rockland Vise in there still that I am trying to get but he's on the fence about it.

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I managed to get my truck stuck trying to get as close to the working point but luckily I had my T190 there anyways so it was an easy pull. Just a hill that was too greasy for the ol' Mega Cab. That and the tail of that trailer catches on every little pitch change, so it was dug in at the slope start. Had to come up the hill to get

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Theres still more stuff but need to figure out how to reach inside the container to support things while stuff is pulled out. It was put in there in the early 90s when a welding shop closed up. Dude was WW2 Marine and came home and started a welding business. We are buying stuff from his 89 year old son in law and my buddy is going to teach him how to use one of the LeBlond lathes that we still need to pull out as part of this deal.
 
Spent some time being a tool polishing whore. If I spent more time on it, you’d see my irate salute better, instead it looks like a **** reflection 😂

I think I have some good users now to tackle my project. I have a few to sell as I don’t really need duplicates

The stubby is a nice Gray Tools body hammer that has long been discontinued. Made in Canada which I picked up from an estate sale yesterday
 

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Parring down I’m not sure which I should keep…

The left user is a Sykes (assumed UK)
-curved faces both ends; different planes
The right user is a Pexto (USA)
-vertical curvature with a flat round face on the other side

The Sykes has a loose head I need to address and I haven’t cleaned it up yet
 

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PAToyota said:
Spend some time using each to see which one feels better to your use.
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My wife said the same thing… she also doesn’t know I have like 8 body hammers now lmao

Some of them can go… like a tinners hammer… do I really need that?
 
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Benny said:
I need a 3 jaw for it. It came with a small 4 jaw and a big 4 jaw.
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Mine's only got a 3 jaw, planning on just chucking a 4 in it when necessary, would very much prefer it being the other way around though with the 4 on the spindle
 
So the head on the Bridgeport is actually an Acramill. Everything else says Bridgeport.

I am missing the quill feed handle and the one from my Bridgeport doesn't fit.

Also, it is not an R8 like my Bridgeport.

I know I am not searching the correct terms, so what is the tool holder style?
 
it a number 30 taper (like an R8 without the long inch diameter shank) or a morse taper?

"number 30" because everyone calls them different **** depending on particulars but they're largely the same, cat, nmtb, iso...
 
[486] said:
it a number 30 (like an R8 without the long inch diameter shank) or a morse taper?
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Probably not Morse. Morse isn't very good for side loading hence why you mostly only see it in drill presses and lathe tail stocks.
 
[486] said:
but a lotta the little M-heads were mt3, iirc
so thought maybe some clone heads adopted it too
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Every M head I have come across (so 3) has been B&S7 which is close enough that you can make do with MT3 if you torque the **** out of the drawbar because that's what the prior owner of mine did. :laughing:

The only MT clones I've ever seen/known of are the mill drill ones that use MT2
 
arse_sidewards said:
Every M head I have come across (so 3) has been B&S7 which is close enough that you can make do with MT3 if you torque the **** out of the drawbar because that's what the prior owner of mine did. :laughing:
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Huh no ****. sold some b&s taper sleeves a long time ago, same sorta self-locking taper as morse
coulda swore they made them in morse though, guess it mighta been other ignorant people ****ing them up like the one you had
 
[486] said:
Huh no ****. sold some b&s taper sleeves a long time ago, same sorta self-locking taper as morse
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They both self lock but it has to do with angles and **** why morse is better for drilling and brown and sharpe is better for milling. I used to know the difference but forgot them because I never used them.

[486] said:
coulda swore they made them in morse though, guess it mighta been other ignorant people ****ing them up like the one you had
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Allegedly they do, BT3 as well, I've never seen either.
 
Looking up into the spindle it looks like it takes something shaped like an R8, only slightly bigger.

There is the taper at the bottom and a 3" section that is 1 1/8" diameter (just guessing by how the r8 fits in there)

There is a key for a keyway on 1 side like an r8
 
Benny said:
Looking up into the spindle it looks like it takes something shaped like an R8, only slightly bigger.

There is the taper at the bottom and a 3" section that is 1 1/8" diameter (just guessing by how the r8 fits in there)

There is a key for a keyway on 1 side like an r8
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huh strange
kinda got me stumped
maybe a 4c?
one of my lathes takes those but I've never seen a mill spindle for them
 
Benny said:
Looking up into the spindle it looks like it takes something shaped like an R8, only slightly bigger.

There is the taper at the bottom and a 3" section that is 1 1/8" diameter (just guessing by how the r8 fits in there)

There is a key for a keyway on 1 side like an r8
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5C
 
Benny said:
I need a 3 jaw for it. It came with a small 4 jaw and a big 4 jaw.
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What size L is it? I still have some L chucks and I think an Jacob's Flex collet chuck for a lathe that I no longer own.

Benny said:
Looking up into the spindle it looks like it takes something shaped like an R8, only slightly bigger.

There is the taper at the bottom and a 3" section that is 1 1/8" diameter (just guessing by how the r8 fits in there)

There is a key for a keyway on 1 side like an r8
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[486] said:
huh strange
kinda got me stumped
maybe a 4c?
one of my lathes takes those but I've never seen a mill spindle for them
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I believe 30 taper has the same taper angle as R8, just more of it. I'd be surprised if an Acra was anything other than those, but someone also could have swapped the spindle or had it reground.
 
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