Xenia Ohio,is not to far from Wilmington oh, the mecca of scirocco yearly
GTG's.... Industrial in Xenia for sure! :)

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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> In the last couple of weeks I've got a few interesting used tools that
> maybe some list members will be interested in. I've posted pics of a couple
> of them on my blog
>
> https://shufti.wordpress.com
>
> One is a very old metal shaper, R.A. Kelly of Xenia Ohio. Got for less
> than scrap iron prices and it doesn't seem to be in too bad shape. Has flat
> belt drive and someone sometime mounted a frame to the back side to mount
> electric motor.
> It is quite primitive compared to later shapers, but I bet it will cut
> fine. My idea is to use it to cut internal key ways.
>
> The other tool is a dividing head, made in Poland. Nothing at all found in
> the net for this machine except that the company is an arms makers. It does
> seem like a very close copy of a Cincinnati dividing head. It doesn't have
> the input shaft that would allow it to be coupled to the power feed of the
> milling machine table ( if it did it would be able to cut helixes and cams)
> but it does have the additional mechanism within the main dividing plate
> that, I believe, increases the number of possible divisions to 400,000.
>
> I've already used the dividing head on a couple of jobs and it really,
> really, cut down the machining time.
>
> This is all old school stuff, but still useful. The dividing head paid for
> itself on the first job.
>
> Alistair
>