Recent content by cowades206

I have the roadrunner version. It was a Christmas present from my grandparents around 1970 plus or minus a year or so. It may have been purchased from a Sears or Wards catalog, or from a local hardware store. I seriously doubt it would have been purchased at a Dodge dealer or a toy store. It...

Hey good research. One of my wife's uncles was telling a story, and he could tell by the look on my face I didn't believe him, so he added: "never let the facts ****** up a good story". I guess this falls into that category.

Can't be certain with just pics. Depends how much wear the chuck and ways have. I would be quite happy with this lathe at this price unless things are really worn. Did you get a 4 jaw chuck with it? don't see it in the box of stuff. The tool holders make me kinda jealous. Hope you have 240V...

Found this in a used book store about 35 years ago and just had to have it. I don't see that one has been shown here. A bit of American automotive history: I was told Henry Ford started the school because he needed more skilled machinist, and then later closed the school because competitors were...

From someone who owns one of these things, I'm with gte718p. If fixing it would bring a smile to your face, you have a difficult project close at hand. If you just want a working lathe, these are too common to put that much work into. If this happened to mine, I might take the opportunity to...

Can't be sure how vintage, but here is a not un-interesting set. Made in western Germany, so that sort of makes it vintage. This set ranges from 1.5mm to 19mm. The few sizes that come close to "Amerikanische" are dual labeled like the 19mm I've shown. Rarely use them, but they look really cool...

That might work. I'll goof around with trying to mount it like that. Yours is way better shape than mine. I looked for pics of the base it supposed to sit on and found people asking hundreds of dollars for these things. Do people actually pay that much for stuff like this, or are these sellers...

I don't have enough horizontal space to have it sitting anywhere. In fact I just dug it out of a storage shed yesterday. I do have vertical space. But now I want to look for a pic that includes the stand.

Yes indeed! You need to keep that AND show it off.

Does this count as automobile paraphernalia? Not sure how this ended up in my possession. I think it showed up at my parents house around 1970, or maybe a couple of years earlier. Then I think my kids drug it from their house to ours 20 some years later. Looks like something that should been...

I cleaned it up and looked using magnification, nothing there.

This is kinda cool. I wonder if they had version where the brake and tail lamps were separate bulbs?

Just came across this post. I have this one that matches this stamped moving jaw patent, but no sort of manufacturers ID anywhere. Newer after the patent ran out?

Not necessarily. They may have made it for a long time and the 60's may have been near the end of the run. They made the 1/2" drive WS550 for like 30-40 years without bothering to improve anything. I wish there was more info available on the IR electric impacts.

Probably won't help, but the manufacturer was Ingersoll Rand. Their model number was 8056, but in the 1962 catalog it doesn't really say much, found this in Archive.org