Subject: surface grinding on a whatever

From: [email-masked] (Joe Landau)
Date: Tue, 14 May 96 03:38:02 GMT

Here's one that belongs in the "nothing new under the sun"
category. After following the "surface grinding on a
mill/shaper" threads, I was glancing through an old Popular
Mechanics (May, 1930, to be specific), and happened on an
article entitled "Surface Grinding on a Drill Press", by W.
Clyde Lammey.  Essentially he built a small platform of wood
that captured the work, and used what appeared to be a
sanding disk to do the grinding.   

The same issue had an article on a solar hot water heater
that could have been from the 1970s (minus the pieties about
the environment), a piece on using a portable router mounted
on a lathe to do spiral turning in wood, and one on
modifying a shaper to do milling.  "A good one (milling machine)
can be constructed very easily if you have built the shaper
described in the November, 1928 issue of Popular Mechanics".
Anybody got that issue?

There were men in those days.

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From: [email-masked](Alan D. Bartz)
Date: 15 May 1996 18:24:58 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Joe Landau) writes:

snip

> "A good one (milling machine)

Joseph,
I called our main branch library and they looked up the Nov 1928 issue
and faxed the article on the 6" shaper to my local branch.  What a
great article.  I 4 pages they show the entire project, drawings,
casting process...  Wish I had more projects like this.

regards,

Alan

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Cook)
Date: 20 May 1996 02:04:18 GMT

>casting process...  Wish I had more projects like this.
I don't suppose we could convince you to share the wealth? :-)

--RC

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From: [email-masked](Alan D. Bartz)
Date: 20 May 1996 04:53:16 GMT

>I don't suppose we could convince you to share the wealth? :-)
Sure, RC,

Check with your local library.  The Columbus Metro Library only does
the over the phone service for their library card holders however.

Alan