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    A Cincinnati mill, with a Bridgeport high speed spindle [M head] with a shop-made mount. One hydraulic stylus for blade profile, another for blade foil, operating the indexer. It's tied to gear motor by another a shop-made bracket. The "Y" axis, mounts with the now ubiquitous shop-made bracket.
    Unclear if the indexer is manually advanced for each blade, because the dividing plate and sector seem engaged. A tapered [maybe 2 or 3 degree] helical ball-end cutter is milling [or some] contours.
    Wish the labels on the boxes were legible. Quite some time before CNC, hydraulic tracers did accurate work. Achieving precision like turbine vanes, patterns sized 10:1, reduction is mechanical. Part of the trick in reducing step over mark is juggling stylus and endmill tip radius, and pattern surface.

    I've liked many of these B&W photos, I must print this one!

    And best thing of all?
    I bet this is the same tool room pictured a few weeks back, with the Rotary Head Mill in the lower left. Another bet, a guy there built shop-made brackets!
    Sincerely,
    Toolmaker51
    ...we'll learn more by wandering than searching...

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