Tinknockers equipment? & OT *LINK*
Cooper Suter
>Not exactly the purview of this forum, but there seems to be a broad collective knowledge here.
I got a trailer load of sheetmetal equipment recently, most I already know about, bar folders, slip rolls, stake plates, box and pan brakes, etc.
One piece has me stuck.
It's a Pexto #969 stand for rotary machines.
Heavy cast iron, maybe 3' wide, 5'-6' tall.
Picture any of your basic Pexto rotary crimping, turning, etc. machines. Instead of mounting it on a universal bench clamping type stand, you mount it on a holder w/a pipe nipple type end that then slides into an arm on this #969 stand.
The stand has four arms on a turn table above, and space to store four more machines on their pipes below, in the center there is a holder/dispenser for a roll of coiled stock.
I've got an old Audels sheetmetal book that shows alot of this vintage machinery (easily pre-WWII), but of course it's not handy now.
My real question is how sexy of a piece is this? I'm going to be peddeling it.
I've handle a fair amount of sheetmetal stuff, and this is not a common item for me.
To me it looks like something a hobbiest w/cash (my favorite type of customer) would really think is cool, for looks alone, if not even for use.
On a totally different tack, and drifting dangerously off topic, at the same place, I picked-up a table saw.
Things were cheap, and there was competition, so I lept w/out looking.
At 1st glance, I figured I was buying one of those monster, all cast, 12", 3 to 5 HP, dinosaur type table saws by some defunct US maker of yesteryear.
You know the kind; SERIOUS workers, but big and obsolete.
Maybe worth a couple of hundred to an old power tool geek, or some pallet maker who needs to rip 4" oak all day.
Does the name Northfield ring any bells?
They were a maker of top of the line machinery going back to the 20's.
By all accounts their stuff made Oliver's look like a Ryobi.
Quality never comes cheap, even in the 60's, I gather their tablesaws were $5000+ at a time when Powermatic and Delta were making quality and priced around a fifth less.
I was surprised to find-out that there still is a world class maker of stationary equipment still manufacturing in the US.
It seems that this kind of quality still doesn't come cheap, take a look at their pricelist, but sit down 1st.
The table saws START in the five figures and with nothing more than extensions and sliding tables added go over $30,000!
I'm sure if you have the need, they're worth the $ though.
Coop
Northfield