Got Vintage machinery/machining signage.

[Jbum]

I have had this for several years and always on the lookout for machinery/machining signs.
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[southalabama]

I don’t have the link but online is a 360 view of Adam Savage’s cave.

If you watch his YouTube channel you know part of the shop is set up to display his collections of movie props and things he finds interesting. In one of the cases is an entire panel of machine and motor spec and identification plates. Really cool.

 

[slowtwitch73]

Those decimal chart equivalent signs have gotten very collectible.. spurred in no small part by Youtube machinists. I have two, and a bunch of others that aren't tool related per se.

Oxtool has a few nice framed collections of data plates.

Nothing new.. the old school machinist guy here in town has a bunch of steam loco plates on his wall... same as it ever was.

 

[Davefr]

Here are a few:

 

[driftpin]

I got this from a friend's welding shop, which he closed after 40+ years in the business. I like the old phone exchange #, when they still used words instead of all-digits.

The sign is stuck-up into a bay between joists of the mezzanine in my garage, hence, the shadow.

 

[Jbum]

I don’t have the link but online is a 360 view of Adam Savage’s cave.

If you watch his YouTube channel you know part of the shop is set up to display his collections of movie props and things he finds interesting. In one of the cases is an entire panel of machine and motor spec and identification plates. Really cool.

I have seen that video and it really looks good.


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[Jbum]

Here are a few:

Nice collection. That Morse sign is sweet.


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[Jbum]

I got this from a friend's welding shop, which he closed after 40+ years in the business. I like the old phone exchange #, when they still used words instead of all-digits.



The sign is stuck-up into a bay between joists of the mezzanine in my garage, hence, the shadow.

Very nice. The phone number really shows it’s age. You just don’t see any like that anymore.


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[Jbum]

Those decimal chart equivalent signs have gotten very collectible.. spurred in no small part by Youtube machinists. I have two, and a bunch of others that aren't tool related per se.

Oxtool has a few nice framed collections of data plates.

Nothing new.. the old school machinist guy here in town has a bunch of steam loco plates on his wall... same as it ever was.

They are getting popular and I have had a couple locals here wanting to buy mine but they fell short of the $1,000,000 price tag I have on it. (Haha)


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[slowtwitch73]

The Morse sign is one of the more attainable and available at the moment.. there's a few variations. I have one..like it alot.

The Timken signs go for large money.

 

[ZRX61]

I have had this for several years and always on the lookout for machinery/machining signs.
Show off what you have!

I have the same one, plus one or two other kinds from the same company

 

[slowtwitch73]

I just got one of these.. very nice.. great graphics. No association, just happy buyer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Newman...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Here's a pic

 

[MShaw]

How about a real machine sign? The company I worked for in the 1970s used these lathes for high production, very accurate tracer turning. They got to the point where the controls were very shaky and we knew more about them than the factory service. So we designed and built our own heavy duty tracer assemblies, stripped the mona-matics to bed and headstock and installed our tracers. The bed and spindle were very rugged so it made a good marriage.

 

[tym]

I just got one of these.. very nice.. great graphics. No association, just happy buyer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Newman...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Nice! Shame that the shipping is a little spendy, but probably unavoidable.

 

[Jbum]

How about a real machine sign? The company I worked for in the 1970s used these lathes for high production, very accurate tracer turning. They got to the point where the controls were very shaky and we knew more about them than the factory service. So we designed and built our own heavy duty tracer assemblies, stripped the mona-matics to bed and headstock and installed our tracers. The bed and spindle were very rugged so it made a good marriage.

Very cool. Nice piece to have

 

[Jbum]

I just got one of these.. very nice.. great graphics. No association, just happy buyer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Newman...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

I like that one. Cool sign.


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[Private Lugnutz]

I have one that was mounted on the door of a cabinet I got for peanuts at a flea market years ago. I keep all my 'Do not ever sell or trade' smalls in there.

Note to Self: Add to Sticky Index

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

I'll have to get snaps of my decimal charts... I have several.

Here is a thread I started some time ago (and havent been back to since the start of COVID) ...

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258563

 

[slowtwitch73]

Nice Private.. like those orange drawers too...

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Nice Private.. like those orange drawers too...

My son has a bunch of those Dorman storage bins.. they're the $hit....

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

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[Private Lugnutz]

Nice Private.. like those orange drawers too...

My son has a bunch of those Dorman storage bins.. they're the $hit....

Extremely well-built, sturdy, heavy-duty cabinets. All my orphans sockets are jammed in there, divided by brand, and the drawers still slide, without any mechanisms, like butter.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

If I could take a more liberal definition of "signage", I have a thing for vintage machinists' aids and paper calculators. I think it comes, believe it or not, from my time in the Army. Visual training aids were and still are a big deal. Everything from aircraft identification flash cards, which everyone is familiar with, to more esoteric items, like a little Soviet Weapons Wheel from the 70's that I still have in my office. As you turn it, you see the specs (range, munitions, etc) for every Soviet weapons system. All in the size of a coaster for your coffee mug.

Like the signs we're showing upthread, machinists' aids were functional, but made and handed out as complimentary gifts, for advertising purposes.

Here are some examples from Lufkin, L.S. Starrett, and Standard Pressed Steel, all from the 1930's.

 

[slowtwitch73]

Orange and metal drawers.. two of my favorite nonsensical man obsessions in one.

 

[Jbum]

I have one that was mounted on the door of a cabinet I got for peanuts at a flea market years ago. I keep all my 'Do not ever sell or trade' smalls in there.

Thats a nice sign. Looks good on the cabinet. I just picked up a vintage Bowman storage cabinet like the orange one you have.

 

[Jbum]

I'll have to get snaps of my decimal charts... I have several.

Here is a thread I started some time ago (and havent been back to since the start of COVID) ...

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258563

Thanks for sharing that link. I had a few badges several years ago and got rid of them when we moved and have regretted it ever since.

 

[TagMan]

My small "collection", hanging up in various locations in my shop...
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[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Nice on the Standard Tool one.. love the early phone numbers.. and I'm guessing that the Jamestown number predated the large Cummins plant we have there now...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Bump and place holder for Sticky Index link.

 

[quickfarms]

This hangs on my wall

 

[ooba tooba]

Years ago I managed a stone cutting shop for a home builder just starting his empire. The 3rd building he bought to house the fab shop, and his new line of cabinets was a recently closed machining plant that had operated at least 60 years there. The day we started to move our saws in I noticed this 16”x20” sign hanging 10 ft up on a wall in a huge empty room. I asked for it, and the boss obliged. Hangs in my garage now above my bench grinders. Not sure how old it it but the lettering looks kind of antique like to me.

 

[Dennis Leigh Henry]

Nice!


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[Oregon rock crusher]

Years ago I managed a stone cutting shop for a home builder just starting his empire. The 3rd building he bought to house the fab shop, and his new line of cabinets was a recently closed machining plant that had operated at least 60 years there. The day we started to move our saws in I noticed this 16”x20” sign hanging 10 ft up on a wall in a huge empty room. I asked for it, and the boss obliged. Hangs in my garage now above my bench grinders. Not sure how old it it but the lettering looks kind of antique like to me.

Your goggles sign reminds me of this one that is mounted on a Rivett cylinder grinder I picked up. Love the vintage script on it. Also a Norton grinder sign that hangs in the shop. I've got quite a few decimal charts scattered around but here's a Morse I don't think was posted yet. My Timken is pretty rough. Ed.

 

[propmaker]

Found this in a wooden machinist I bought, came from McDonald Douglas.

 

[gatewaysysop]

I've picked up a few of these over the years:

 

[slowtwitch73]

Here's a few more..

 

[cchamelin]

My Cleveland Twist Drill


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[wrenchguy]

Badge = Signage?

 

[65ranchero]

I got this one at a antique shop while in the Adirondacks visiting my sister
It supposedly came out of a abandoned Beechnut plant in Schoharie NY

 

[slowtwitch73]

Words to live by lol.......