I'm not sure. Hopefully Ross from above remembered to subscribe to this post. It might be worth PM'ing him with your question. He would probably be able to give you an estimate. I'll ask Barry the next time I see him if he's interested in making the wooden blanks for this and casting up a few sets. If several people were interested in castings it might make it worth doing.
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I'll add another vote for castings. What's your background? Do you have any recent projects that you'd like to share pictures of?
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Thanks for the welcome Tyler. I am a home machinist, amateur knifemaker, beginning leather worker. The one large project that I have completed is a KMG grinder clone. I also have a lot of unfinished projects laying around. :(
I have a forge and burner experiment that I have to get back to. As soon as I can get/scrounge the materials, I want to make an electric heat treat oven.
I have only an unfinished photo of the clone. I attempted to upload it. Hope it shows up.
I'd never seen a KMG before. I assume yours turned out like the one in this video?
Seems like a pretty versitile little grinder. Where did you find the plans for it?
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It works very well. Mine is powered by a 3 HP, 3phase motor through a VFD. It is a beast. The only reason I went to such a powerful motor is that I got it for free. I just tracked down the bearings for the small wheel adapter and will be making ne soon.
Sorry I have been busy moving & helping a friend build a house at the same time. I would look into pouing some shaper castings, price kinda depends on raw meterials market, on small ferrous stuff coke price usually dictates pricing, bigger pours are actually cheaper (better fuel to metal ratio) Let Me know when ya'll get the patterns done.
On the Quorn parts, I ran into a fella at the GEARS show in PDX a couple years ago that had some very nice castings set ( and a hand shaper as well) I think the Quorn is still under patents so that would be the best way to go, If I find his card I will post the info.
Found a set of drawings on vintageplans.com for a 4" slotter Cool!
Found an ad in a 1952 Popular mechanics magazine for the Pootatuck Corporation, apparently the also had drawing for a 2 lathes, 3 mills (horz. I think) and the shaper. I would love to find the rest.
Ty I live 10 miles north of Baker City OR. when I get set up better this summer feel free to stop by. Ross
Hey Fred, I swear I replied to your two posts a few days ago, but the reply seems to have dissappeared. I'm not sure what happened. Sorry about that. Maybe I replied in a different place. Did you send me a PM? Maybe that's where I replied and explained how to post pictures, etc. If not, let me know and I'll reply a second time.
Ross, I drive through Baker all the time on my way down to Idaho to visit my family. I'd love to stop by sometime on my way through and take a few pictures of your setup for the site. Maybe we can coordinate a pour and I can film it. Not that there aren't hundreds of Youtube videos of people pouring hot metal … but still it would be a fun excuse to cast something. I'll talk to Barry about making patterns and see what he thinks. Might be a fun project.
It's funny you mention GEARS, I went there for the first time last year and it was a wonderful show. There was a guy there selling Quorn castings (probably the same guy) and I think Barry got the last piece he needed from him, but I'm not sure.
As far as the ad goes, did you have a PM from back then or did you find a scan online? I'd like to have a copy of the add to attach to the post. That woudl be fun to have.
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Post edited 12:20 PM – March 22, 2010 by Pelallito
Tyler,
This is the second time I try to respond to your last post to me. It got lost also. The black hole has apparently taken up residence here for now.:)
I had trouble posting photos from photobucket. From my computer, it worked fine, except I had problems finding some of them. They were hiding in another file-OOps.
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