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    I like the little ship's wheel. Lower right in photo.

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    Mesta double helical gear planer.

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    I saw some of those in Italy made from wood .under a Museum in the dirt where they have been for probably a few hundrad years....or more.

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    Here's another view of the same machine.Plus an even bigger gear.High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools-mesta-double-helical-gear.jpgHigh-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools-mesta-double-helical-gear-cutting.jpg

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    I don't think the bolts next to the shaft are holding much.
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    Chances are they were patterns for casting the gears, was common.

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    What bolts? What pic?

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    those are for adjusting back lash.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimfols View Post
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    I don't think the bolts next to the shaft are holding much.
    No, but they identify as fully qualified fasteners...

    All that engineering and manufacturing; get a load of the counterweight to lower left of indexer, incredible sophistication.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toolmaker51 View Post
    No, but they identify as fully qualified fasteners...

    All that engineering and manufacturing; get a load of the counterweight to lower left of indexer, incredible sophistication.
    High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools-ghostbolts.jpg

    These are the bolts I was thinking about.
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