Recent content by millforge

Today I picked up a vintage Stanley J5 elecric plane from an online auction. It came in its original steel box, with some attachments, that must weigh 50 lbs all together. It has an 18,000 rpm dome-top router motor with grease fitting at both bearings and it sounds fine and smooth running, but...

Thank you. That is the exact same machine for sure, but 1960s????. It looks so primitive. I have older drills than that, that look modern in comparison. Maybe it was an attempt at retro-styling?

Until this week I could have denied collecting old electric drills. The only ones here were my Dad's, so they are part of the family, including his 1970 cordless rechargeable. But these 2 presented themselves just a few days apart, and I weakened. My guess is that these are both from the 1920s...

Here's a cool one last seen in my barn a few years ago. Now buried somewhere out there. It was a mystery at first but with some help from Jeff Joslin we identified it as a product of Schumacher from Cincinnatti Ohio. My son says it was designed by Dr. Zeus...

I think your lathe is related to one I have, which also has no name. It is not identical, but similar in many ways. By consultation on another forum we identified mine as an S C Wright lathe. The company became Fitchburg Machine Works shortly after. Try this link and see what you think...

Being a fan of foot powered machines, I really admire that treadle lathe, but not as a working unit. It looks to me like the treadle is at one end and the headstock of the lathe at the other end (presuming the chuck I see is attached to the headstock). So this is a base for a treadle lathe with...