Gun shop photos

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

Hellow guys I have not been on the site for a while.I thought some of you might like to see some photos of the shop tools that I have bought in the last 18 years of business.I know that I like to see what other people use in there shops.

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Brodie posted this 27 March 2012

i FOR ONE WOULD LOVE TO SEE SAID PHOTOS. BRODIE

B.E.Brickey

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

msc 13x40

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

true turn 16x40

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

colchester 15x50

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

Rutland tools 9x42 bridgeport copy

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

3 HP Baldor grinder with 14"x3” wheels

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Rifle 57 posted this 27 March 2012

All this stuff is cramed in a 10x24 shop. I have some more tools in a smaller shop that I will post latter.I hope you enjoy!!

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 28 March 2012

hi...eating my heart out...especially that big colchester.... i owned a machine shop for 40 years...the last half lots of cnc stuff. but with cnc only the first part is fun (g) ... since retiring i am keeping an old belt driven southbend 13 x 39 ....to do gunwork on...ok, and a hardinge hnc in case i need a dozen of something (g) ... fwiw, on the msc lathe, be careful using the thread dial ...some threads may require you to use the same exact dial line.

nice toys !! ken

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raytear posted this 28 March 2012

:doooah: After seeing your pics, I just about ruined my keyboard by drooling on it. BTW, a 10 X 24 machine shop is 10 X 24 more than I have.

Good shooting. . . and gun tinkering! RT

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Rifle 57 posted this 28 March 2012

Thanks guys I am glad that you enjoyed the photos. Ken I know what you mean about starting on the same line on the thread dial on the MSC . I have allways made a habbit of using the same line on the dial after the first threading pass on all of my lathes. Thats just the way that I got use to doing it.

Thanks Loren.

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Pigslayer posted this 28 March 2012

Ken Campbell, Iowa wrote: hi...eating my heart out...especially that big colchester.... i owned a machine shop for 40 years...the last half lots of cnc stuff.Ã‚Â but with cnc only the first part is fun (g) ... since retiring i am keeping an old belt driven southbend 13 x 39 ....to do gunwork on...ok, and a hardinge hnc in case i need a dozen of something (g) ... fwiw, on the msc lathe, be careful using the thread dial ...some threads may require you to use the same exact dial line.

nice toys !!Ã‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â Ã‚Â ken My Dad was a machinist for Hardinge Bros. for 32 years!

If someone else had of done to me what I did to myself . . . I'd have killed him. Humility is an asset. Heh - heh.

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rojkoh posted this 21 June 2013

Nice I need one of these, don't have my old Lathe anymore. I just got a M1A with a heavy barrel and the area around the gas cylinder mount is out of round.... not pleasant.

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4570sharps posted this 28 April 2016

Very nice!

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Rifle 57 posted this 29 April 2016

Thanks. I have some more machines a Atlas 7” shaper and a Bridgeport 8x15 surface grinder and several grinders-sanders and a nice Baldor buffer also a really nice Trinco 36” bead blast cabinet and of course tons of tooling. Loren.