My first Bridgeport - a Series-1! - and an equally vintage 9x24 South Bend lathe!

My first mill - and since I'm a 1963 model, I think it's older than I am! Bought from a Delta Airlines machinist. All-original; BP power feeds, 3-phase BP motor; even the BP vise. Needs to be cleaned, but oil in the lines, not grease, not a lot of visible wear on the ways.

All works fine and tight; he had been using it and meaning to restore it as a project, but promised his wife he'd try it on Craigslist Atlanta first.
So I saw it and jumped! Only about 50 miles away. Owner had built a nice 5-hp rotary phase converter for it; more than enough - so now I don't have to discount three-phase tools i run across.

Also a nice Kamakura rotary table and the big 90-degree mount. Decent amount of tooling; full set of collets. Local place rigged it.
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I'm tight on space, so had to angle it. Got it shimmed level and re-set the head.
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This is Georgia, so plumb in the dehumidifier permanently!
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Phase converter - lathe will go to the right of it - though it's single-phase
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Lathe - will also be fun to prettify, but all works and is tight and no visible way wear - owner by a motorcycle restorer until last week.
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Forrest in Atlanta - finally making great strides in converting my wood hobby shop to a metal hobby shop!

Congrats there Forrest, my theory is we cannot have too many home machinists.
The humidifier is fine for the weather, but that's going to be a chip magnet sitting there. I'd hang it, surrounded by a 2 or 3 sided doghouse.
Angled placement, right side out, is 'normal' orientation, keeps protruding material/ operator from envelope of adjacent equipment. Vises first, ro-tab my go-to for what builds up table tooling next.
If, and when, you want suggestions for additional tooling, a single post here might get more responses than you'll ever absorb.

Thanks - I'm setting up my home shop for mostly metal work, and have huge amounts to learn. I got these two books to start on the lathe side -
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've also been watching YouTube on folks restoring these - I figure that's a good way to get intimately familiar with every part and home it relates. These seem to have been taken care of, and used up until the time i bought them by home machinists; interestingly both involved in restoring vintage motorcycles.

Last night I was trying to move stuff around to see what would fit and give me sufficient work area -
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I had to move a Belsaw planer, a radial arm saw, a 14" wood bandsaw, and a 4x6 metal bandsaw to free up this wall - now they're in the way! I think some of my woodworking stuff is going on CraigsList.

Have you ever read Trustee from the Toolroom? Great novel by a Brit who was also a famous aeronautical engineer - he and his character here have always been two of my heroes.
https://smile.amazon.com/Trustee-fro...s%2C169&sr=8-1

Forrest - I know I'll have a million questions!

Forrest in Atlanta

No, unfamiliar with Schute other then A Town Like Alice; but anything with 'Toolroom' within title can't be all bad!
Not trying to run your shop floor layout, but machine tools [with ways] are happier removed from abrasive grit and metal particles flung about. Regarding a million or one million twelve questions; we don't keep tally; let them fly!

Absolutely. Going to put the drill press where that 6x48 is, and the 6x48 where the drill press is, with the grinders and sanders on the other side of the shop - give me a minute!

Looked up the s/n this morning, the BP is 1967 and the little South Bend lathe is 1923! Hard to believe.

Forrest

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No, unfamiliar with Schute other then A Town Like Alice; but anything with 'Toolroom' within title can't be all bad!
Not trying to run your shop floor layout, but machine tools [with ways] are happier removed from abrasive grit and metal particles flung about. Regarding a million or one million twelve questions; we don't keep tally; let them fly!

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Nevil Shute Norway was an aeronautical engineer and author. Trustee from the Toolroom is one of his best books, IMO, but his most compelling work is On the Beach.

He worked on the R100 British airship. It was scrapped after the accident of its sister ship, the R101. The paragraph below, from the Wikipedia article on Shute, offers insight to the man that will resonate with most of the forum members involved in technical work.


Shute gives a detailed account of the development of the two airships in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule.[5] His account is very critical of the R101 design and management team, and strongly hints that senior team members were complicit in concealing flaws in the airship's design and construction. In The Tender Ship, Manhattan Project engineer and Virginia Tech professor Arthur Squires used Shute's account of the R100 and R101 as a primary illustration of his thesis that governments are usually incompetent managers of technology projects.[6]

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Nevil Shute Norway was an aeronautical engineer and author. Trustee from the Toolroom is one of his best books, IMO, but his most compelling work is On the Beach.

He worked on the R100 British airship. It was scrapped after the accident of its sister ship, the R101. The paragraph below, from the Wikipedia article on Shute, offers insight to the man that will resonate with most of the forum members involved in technical work.


Shute gives a detailed account of the development of the two airships in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule.[5] His account is very critical of the R101 design and management team, and strongly hints that senior team members were complicit in concealing flaws in the airship's design and construction. In The Tender Ship, Manhattan Project engineer and Virginia Tech professor Arthur Squires used Shute's account of the R100 and R101 as a primary illustration of his thesis that governments are usually incompetent managers of technology projects.[6]

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Those are bells rung frequently, here on HMT.net and elsewhere.
How are we surprised, though? The same brilliant group of minds cannot understand meanings of perfectly clear linguistic and legal statements; while offering new-think interpretations. What on earth is there to misconstrue in "Shall not"?

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Absolutely. Going to put the drill press where that 6x48 is, and the 6x48 where the drill press is, with the grinders and sanders on the other side of the shop - give me a minute!

Looked up the s/n this morning, the BP is 1967 and the little South Bend lathe is 1923! Hard to believe.

Forrest

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Give me a minute, lol. I do virtually ALL of my own rigging and moving up to roughly 7 or 8000 pounds. It always takes more than a minute. One favorite pairing is a drill press with a wide speed range [especially lower RPM's] next to a mill; tapping, hole chamfering, countersinking, and piloted spotfacing. No sense cranking table/ knee for parts that slide freely or register to stops. Saved untold hours this way, often deburring while a hole is bored etc.

You're off to a good start there, Forrrest. I like the BPs with a short table. I've got a clone with a 42" table. Works great in a crowded shop.

Along with the others, find a better location for the dehumidifier. And the rotary phase converter would be gathering chips as well.
Might want to hang that up on the wall with some stout brackets. Some of those make noise, so the higher the better.

Dang heavy bench vise ya got there !


Good luck with your new endeavor.
gatz

Thanks - gonna' re-arrange and make brackets this weekend based on the advice I'm getting. Bench vise was grandad's - a Reed 105S.

Humidity-wise - I've run the dehumidifier continuously since last weekend (cycling) and shop temps are 72-80F, with relative humidity 45-55%. It's an awfully humid summer in Atlanta!

Okay - lots of good recommendations here - thanks to all.

• Moved the dehumidifier to the left of the door.
• Organized that under-table storage area to store the little metal saw - trying to dense-pack!
• Swapped the drill press and the 6x48 sander to the other side of the shop.
• Cleaned and patched and painted the wall as an inspiring backdrop.
• Will make a bracket to raise the phase converter straight up; will mount on the wall to the upper right of the door frame.
• Phase converter input will go over the door frame; will share 240/50A circuit with the plasma cutter.

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Forrest in Atlanta

Perfect!
Since no one ever reports too much space, there are many layout possibilities.
Good job hanging transformer and humidifier; not only saves maintenance or electrical issues, you utilizE the most overlooked [IMNSHO] resource of all...cubic space. Some folks don't get past hanging wall charts.
If it doesn't block light or hit your head, all's good.

Mounted and ran the cables neatly for the RPC; cranked up the mill for the first time in its new home - she's happy!
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Forrest