mills skill stop system

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Re: mills skill stop system

Postby Richard13 » Tue Nov 22, 2016 12:38 pm

Great job Jeff lots of attention to detail!
Looking for survivor machines especially vendor fronts or original side vendors with or without
a machine. 1920's-30's goosenecks, round escalators. I enjoy hand painting the castings.
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Re: mills skill stop system

Postby JHSS-1944 » Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:15 am

bear in mind, these weren't professionally made pieces by any stretch of the imagination.
find flat pieces of metal plate (here is stainless steel from work) , get the blue print images to correct size with a photocopy machine, trace the images on to the metal. Cut off as much as possibly with a band saw. Use hand tools & grinders to remove more metal. then clamp 3 pieces together to clean up & minor shaping ,so they all match, & drill the holes. then use a vise & bend / beat the area (s) that need to be folded over. do the best to matching them all up. put them together as a unit , see if it works , if not tweak what's needed. the bar attached to the bracket I had a guy at work weld for me. then sand blast all the parts , assemble = done.
The only original set I found for sale was $350.00 = I'll pass (that price was over half of what I paid for the slot itself).
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