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Thanks Dave,
The speed plate and stroke indicator on mine are cast aluminum, the serial number is 558, wonder how many were made. The crank handle was missing so I made one using a 3/4 socket, the arm is about a foot long, still a good crank to raise the table, with a heavy work piece it would be a struggle. The air cylinder is a good idea, not sure if a finer ratchet would help lift the table, the slip clutch on mine is after the ratchet and slips just fine.
Look forward to some pictures.

Hi Greg, 

I did manage to take some pictures and hopefully here they are.  I took a quick look for the serial number and couldn't find one but I'll try again when I get a chance.  The motor on mine looks like its original and is a 3 "BHP" 3 phase running at 1200 RPM.  There are 4 v-belts driving the shaper.

Thanks for the post Dave.
That vice looks like a monster, maybe someday I'll find one.
Your table is different than mine, does it bolt to the T slots on the apron, or what ever its called? Mine will rotate on the apron with two big bolts fastening it and a big tapered dowel pin aligning it at 90 deg.
Mine has a single phase motor with no plate, will have to check it with a tach, I assumed it was 1740 rpm. Does the driven pulley have gloves for 5 belts?
See yours has Peerless cast into the head, the one pho I found on the net was like that.
The serial number on mine was on the speed plate.

Hi Greg, 

I should get a chance later this week to check a number of things but here goes. 
- The tables do look different.  I had the table off when I first bought it and I think it does pivot.  
- The  pulley is only 4 belts but they are the bigger belts (B? belts) yours might be as well, I'll check the grooves and my counting.  
- The motor is a Brooks and is British from what I remember.  

I remember lifting the vice off the floor onto the table but that was a few years ago and my back was likely sore for a few days.  I have one of those pickup truck hydraulic lifts that reaches the table and a few other machines, life is so much easier now.  No luck with the serial number on the plate (plastic).   I'm assuming it is stamped on a casting somewhere.  

Dave

I like the tool tray. Great idea.

Hi Greg, 

My table is held on by 3 T-bolts and unfortunately it doesn't rotate like yours (I thought that your front table support looked different).    Both the shaper and motor pulleys have only 4 grooves.  I measured the vice and the jaws are slightly over 10 inches wide and the jaws open a full 12 inches.  

Just after I bought it I read on another forum that on some shapers you can feed a shaft in from the back in order to cut a keyway, spline or ?  I took a look and yes you can feed a pretty big shaft through the back.  Pretty neat feature. 

Sunset machine, 

For me unfortunately the tool tray is kinda like my table saw.  It makes a great place to pile all sorts of unrelated stuff that shouldn't be there ;)

Dave

The "tray" on mine is rimless and a great place for vice wrenches and parallels to pile up, jam or fall on my foot. You can see it in this pic:

The tray makes a good drip tray for the excess oil off the ram.
You can feed a shaft through the body of my Logan too.
Would love to have a vice that size.

Im going to need to cut some internal keyways so started making the tooling for the shaper.
Not sure what this is called, looks like a boring bar but the cutter gets pushed with the ram. Had a piece of inch dia mystery metal, maybe 4140 pre hardened. Rather than file out a 1/4 inch square hole for the cutter I somewhat copied the lantern tool holder on the shaper. Cut an elongated slot and used rings to cover the round ends.




Now to make a mount for the clapper box.

Got the mount made.


Don't think I posted the V-block and clamp I made.



Ready to start cutting keyways.