1942 Bridgeport
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Redwolf947
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Looks good. chrispyny
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Very awesome. What kind of paint is that, what color is it, and how are you applying it?
Farmall450
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chrispyny
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I love the rustoleum professional dark and light gray enamel. I tend to prefer the light gray. Ultimately, once it dries, it is a good shade of gray. Like you said, the dark machine gray does tend to be a bit dark in person once dry.
Are you keeping or selling once done? If i were closer, i'd buy it in a heart beat. I love to do nut and bolt restorations like you. You see, to know what you are doing. Do you have experience rebuilding bridgeports?
Are you keeping or selling once done? If i were closer, i'd buy it in a heart beat. I love to do nut and bolt restorations like you. You see, to know what you are doing. Do you have experience rebuilding bridgeports?
As far as Bridgeport's this is my first and yes keeping it. My shop is filled with machines I have restored I like the old American made machines my newest machine dates to 1965 and oldest dates to the 1920's.. My mom used to tell everyone when she would buy me something the first thing I would do was take it apart and see how it worked guess it stuck
chrispyny
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Absolutely gorgeous. Do you care to share what you paid for it?
If not publicly, i's love if you Pm's me the price. Just wondering what i should pay for something like that, if i were to attempt to find one that pretty myself.
I would aboslutely love to restore an older bridgeport just like that one.
Edited to add: who will you have true up your ways etc? The scraping takes a lot of fairly expensive tools and a well experienced hand?
Keep up the good work and please continue to share your progress.
If not publicly, i's love if you Pm's me the price. Just wondering what i should pay for something like that, if i were to attempt to find one that pretty myself.
I would aboslutely love to restore an older bridgeport just like that one.
Edited to add: who will you have true up your ways etc? The scraping takes a lot of fairly expensive tools and a well experienced hand?
Keep up the good work and please continue to share your progress.
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Dennis Leigh Henry
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That's a beauty... What is the oldest Bridgeport out there any idea?
chrispyny
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1938.
Serial numbers BH-1 through BH-39.
Total made that year: 39
Most ever made in any year was 1969. 13,138
The average across the years appears to be a few thousand each year.
Dennis Leigh Henry
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Super cool.. I believe the BP we had in high school was a '69....
NICE! I wish one would fall in my lap, it seems when they do pop up around here they are $3500+ and clapped out looking.
Don't sweat the color, I'd paint that mofo p**** pink and make sweet love to it if I got the deal you got.
Don't sweat the color, I'd paint that mofo p**** pink and make sweet love to it if I got the deal you got.
ttpete
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Is that a J head or an M head?
ttpete
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If so, it won't be an R8 taper.
Dennis Leigh Henry
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Nine4GMC.. no reason to worry off topic or not.... I should know the answer but don't without looking it up.. we'll all know soon enough.. Now over on the Practical Machinist site... you'd have your head chewed off by now... lol
Safety always off....
Safety always off....
chrispyny
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Gorgeous. Love the red in the table channels.
Serial #1553. The pics I posted were from when we bought it. It's since found its home next to my South Bend 1307 lathe. Both make chips, although I really don't work them too hard.
dr_clyde
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AFAIK, there are 8 different Bridgeport heads, the oldest is the R head, fixed spindle, followed by the C head, similar to R, smaller I think.
The M or "master head" combined milling and drilling with a quill feature. They are 1/2 HP and have a BS spindle taper, I believe.
Then came the J head, which added a longer quill and changed to the R8 spindle taper. These are pretty common, uses pulleys and belts to change spindle speeds, had a 3/4 HP motor. Also added a power feed to the quill.
Then the 2J, the 4J. The 2J is what is currently available, had 1.5 HP and then eventually 2 HP, and uses a Reeves drive to control spindle speed. The 4J is the 4HP head they put on some of the Series II bridgeys, A_PMech has one. They have a 40 taper spindle and are much larger than a common 2J.
There were cherrying and shaping heads, available, T, and E
Long story short, a J or 2J is the most common, and is the most useful for general small knee mill work.
Nelson58
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That's a steal for $750 with tooling. How were the bearings? I'm assuming you had to replace them.
Nelson58
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Lucky to have decent bearings, usually the first thing gone bad.
There is a group on yahoo has most of the BP lit.
There is a group on yahoo has most of the BP lit.
chrispyny
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Gorgeous !! So jelly!
Nine it was one of the easiest tear downs I have done so far. the bearing kit I got was from here http://www.machinerypartsdepot.com/product/RBK-MHEAD
Really nice people to deal with not a lot of parts for the old m head but not a lot can go wrong with one either. when you start on yours feel free to pm me if you have any questions.
AWESOME!! Thank you for the link! I see in this picture it looks like you are missing the fine feed wheel too? I'm only going by the manual for reference that one should be there, mine does not have one and I wondered if I needed it.
