Well the art department and engineering were getting rid of several pieces of equipment. After a microsecond, we decided to take the stuff on. Most of the pieces are just in need of a little tender loving care. These are the before shots.
The lathe is a powermatic 18" by 36" three phase 10 hp with outboard turning as well as variable speed. Nice gap-bed style with heavy stand. It needs cleaning and some tooling but all in all good addition to shop.
Here is the Surface grinder. It is a Proth 8" by 16" hydraulic, water bath, with magnetic holddown. This is a great find, makes our shop just a little more versatile. Downside, noisy and dirty. it just needs cleaning and setup.
So in the pile of stuff the department is offing is a Miller CP 200 (s) it is a 100% duty cycle mig-welder. We just need to get some diodes and clean it up. This is a great welder due to its capacity -200 amps- and duty cycle. So we can do some long and deep welds.
We are going to change out our delta 10" table saw to a 12" powermatic. This powermatic needs the surface cleaned and a fence. Since we were going to install a new fence on the 10" we will install it on this one. Also we are going to put in a router lift to the right. Looks ragged but great addition to the woodshop.
Here is an oven just laying outside so we grabbed it to augment our oven. Great for tempering as well as preheating for welding. Not a lot of work here just placement and plug.
The last item is a planer. This one is about twice the weight of our planer and about two inches wider. As planers go weight and width is all. Not sure how this one will pan out.
The interesting part about all of this is they replaced these pieces with new ones and just were going to throw these away!
