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Excellent Progress Bill~

Nice work & neat looking machine Bill.

Thanks Bruce, thanks Charlie.
I intend to keep updating but my progress will likely be pretty slow.

Cheers

Bill

Hi Bill, It's great to see you posting again and this is a great project!

Gil

Hi all

My second cam works pretty well, I've made a couple of test cuts with the scroll saw, a 1/8" thick piece of hard pine salvaged from a 100+ year old piano, cut pretty well.
although a bit slow going as the big pulley turns the spindle at a rather low speed.

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My next steps will be to set up my de-rusting station, clean up the scroll saw and do a little painting.

Here are a few of the other major attachments that still need some work.
Disc sander

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Picture is out of order but here is the cam I made

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and the milling attachment

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This is the drum sander


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Cheers
Bill

Bill, that machine is so cool! [ Guests cannot view attachments ] Such a rare item, and you're doing a beautiful job with it. There was a time in my life when I would have given anything to have a machine like that. (Who am I kidding? I still want one!)

Paula

Thanks for the comments Nick, Gil, Charlie Bruce and Paula.

I've cleaned up some of the rust and grime from the steel parts.

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And started painting the casting,

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got to hit the other side again and I'll reassemble.

There are still plenty more parts to clean and paint but I'm whittling it down.

Cheers.

Bill