I brought home a couple of new machines for my new shop this past week including a LeBlond Heavy 12" Lathe and a Landis 3S Surface Grinder as well as a nice welding table. In this video, we go over the new machine purchases.
Thank's for showing.My shop is tiny.(Two 9 inch southbends) One Burke mill) so I'm enjoying your progress.My dad ran a 100 ft La Blond in the Brooklyn Navy yard during the war.Seeing this stuff keeps my memory of him alive.If only these wartime machines could talk.
Awesome Keith! I love that new shop! Looks great! Make sure you save a spot for a drill press, I got one with your name on it. I'll get it to you one day man. Let me know the size collets your missing.
+Abom79 Adam: I have some large taps I would like to send you, but I don't have your address. Email it to me and I will see that you get them. Love your channel, Keith's channel and Tom's too!tombutte@aol.com
+Abom79 I will look and see which ones I am missing when I get back home. As for the drill press, I should have plenty of room for it. Not in a huge hurry as I want to get the shop further along before I start hauling in too many machines. Dale Derry is going to drop something off for you in a few weeks - I very well might be over your way in the next month or two and could drop it off if I do - or you are welcome to come up to Tifton any time!
Hi Keith. I have to tell you your shop was well thought out, I don't mind saying there should be nothing you cant do in that mighty fine shop. Well done my very good friend...
.wow.......your my kind of shopper Mr Rucker..........great show, keep the peaks and teases to a minimum for us older viewers......so many projects........and not a dud in the line up!
I just got a 20x20 space (old 2 carage detached) for my shop and i thought i was in heaven. Your building is awesome and i know for a fact you have already done a few laps around the inside at night yelling "woo hoo!!". Keep up the progress.
Nice Equipment Finds!! Very special to find a WWII time-period Vintage Metal Lathe knowing it must have helped preserve the the future of the country :-)
+Charles Marlin Back when I worked in the machine shop, we had several WWII era machines that had badges on them that stated that they were "Made in Accordance with the War Production Board" or something to that effect. You could not help but wonder what important part those machines helped to make during such an emergency.
The Landis Grinder was made in Waynesboro, PA. I worked there for two summers and my father, uncle, and two grandfathers all were employed by the company. They were much more famous for cylindrical grinders, but any machine they made were made to exacting standards. It should give you great service.
I like your new workshop, and the lathe and surface grinder Keith. That workshop is going to be awesome when it's all finished and all the machines are all in place.
Great shop Keith, and really nice machine finds. That Leblond should do the trick, huh! The smile on your face says it all. Can't wait to see it in person.
Your new shop is coming along great! The machines look as if they belong already. Looking forward to the big switch-on! Thanks for all the great video's.
Looks like one heck of a good start fitting out the new shop. Lathe looks decidedly heavy duty - and some nice parts, chucks etc. Surface grinder looks great. Weld table has good potential. Plenty to keep you busy! :)
+ChrisB257 Yep, it is driving me crazy working around those machines trying to get the wiring done - I want so bad to tear into them and start working on them!!!
Great score Keith.I used to love running the surface grinders in shop class-and the lathe,and,the mill,and the shaper....That stuff found a good home! Holes in the welding table will be great for clamping and making jigs.
Nice haul Mr. Rucker! I am happy to see you are on your way to filling your shop with some nice sturdy gear, congratulations! Thanks for sharing this with us, and good luck on your overhaul of them, Aloha...Chuck
My father was a machinist and I worked some where he worked for a few months doing mostly cleanup but some light machinist's work. I can't wait until the shop is done.
Wow, Keith, what 39 months will do... Nicely done! Incredible amounts of skill and knowledge. I am proud to have been on the whole trip from this wreck to a salable machine that will make someone happy for decades.
Good to see you in the new shop Keith. We had 4 or 5 LeBlonds at the Vocational School I attended in high School , a long time ago. I think their very good lathes.
Congratulations on three great additions to your new shop. The items have gone to about the best home they could get. Especially the lathe and grinder. In your hands they will be appreciated, cared for and well used!
Keith, Nice haul on the machines. The power box that powers the magnetic chuck will have a rectifier in it. Be sure and check out the rectifier especially if it is a selenium type (a series of square plates with spacers between each plate. Selenium rectifiers tend to degrade over time and either short or the internal resistance increases to the point that they don't output their full-rated voltage. Being an electronics nut myself, you will know when a selenium rectifier burns up. It had sort of a rotten egg smell. You can get high voltage, high current silicon rectifiers that will replace a bad selenium type. Since they do generate some heat, mount them on a large finned heatsink. You can also use a large "muffin" fan to blow cooling air over the heatsink. Sorry if I got too technical. Stan seems to have a lot of knowledge on surface grinders, so you might want to check with him. Good luck with your new finds! Dave
Some cool new old machines Keith, always more restoring of the machines so you can do even more projects down the line. All great fun for both you and us viewers. Wow the new shop is looking great Keith, roomy for now but somehow it won't stay that way for long, stray equipment will inevitably follow you home. James Kilroy's Monster always is looking to populate open shop spaces.
great catch, brother keth! now, i guess, i shall step up the known shipment. i already can see your shop in its full glory and full of opportunities to provide terrific service to you. congrats in plenty! -toly
A true machinist. The shop isn't wired yet, but vintage machinery is on hand. I hope the LeBlond gets a bit of TLC and some paint. LeBlond made a fine lathe and it was very popular as a University machine in labs and shops. So your guess at provenance is probably correct. The grinder is a find. Wire that shop, your faithful viewers will put up with it.
FINE addition to the home shop there, Keith! Glad you found them. Seems like the DuPont shop had a LeBlond lathe there. I know the name and that's probably the only place I'd have been around one. Come on 220 and lets hear those baby's humm!
Landis makes a lot of nice grinders, I think that will be a very good machine. On the mag chuck, center position is off, usually ccw turns on mag and if you go full cw it goes to residual which turns the chuck off and uses residual magnetisim in the part to hold it in place. Those electro mags also pulse when you turn them off to demag your parts. Most magnet controls have lights, green being on and yellow being residual. Those will all be some nice new pieces to have. Your shop is coming together nicely now! :-)
Wow what a great set of machines for your new shop. I'm sure you will get all the little problems sorted out and have some great running equipment. Where I used to work they used lathes that were all made around 1942 some really solid equipment that definitely stands the test of time. Now you just need to get to pulling that wire in and get that new circuit box installed so you can start testing all of your equipment out. I too used to work for an electrical sub contractor when i was in my early 20's and did wire houses and major industrial buildings. So I am glad you are doing your own electrical you will save a ton of money. Have a great time keith
Keith, Wonderful solid US made lathe. Next step (if you already don't have it) is to get the lube chart so you can enjoy it with the correct oils. Best wishes, Eric
+esoomreltna I have the manuals and lube charts for it - I have not really gone through the machine yet and I plan on doing a restoration on the lathe as soon as I get the shop somewhat finished.
+Scott Tyndall Shoot me an email so that we can be sure to hook up. As far as I know, I will be around at least part of the day but with all of the work going on in my new shop at home, I will probably spend part of my time there as well.
I'm already sending the claustrophobia in the new shop. Time to add the side bay! Those machines are beauties. Neil got the 21" South Bend home and he's very optimistic it will clean up into a nice example of 1920s machine design.
Great haul Keith! Can't wait to see the restoration on that Level Blond. Landis made some great heavy old grinders. We have two big cylindrical Landis grinders at work which were used to grind the taper on cannon barrels during WWII, if the story is correct. Great machines made in Pennsylvania if I'm not mistaken. If you wish, you can update your chuck control unit to a much smaller O.S. Walker or similar unit and gain some neat features like variable magnetism and a demagnetizer. It should hook right up to your chuck no problem, I've converted a few. Great channel, good luck!
