Share your Magna memorabilia!

[thedovetailjoint]

What a cool space, John!

…and yet missing an MGR segment to truely validate it!

I guess so need to pay a visit.

[chapmanruss]

John,

Having visitors to your Shopsmith Museum would be a great opportunity to use the Prospect Kit box. Make up "visitor" cards to fill out about anyone who comes in. Could include Shopsmith tools with their name of course and their date of visit. Even "item donation" with their visit.

[chapmanruss]

So the comment was made previously by Scott Markwood about John's "Museum" and a need for a visit. That happened while the Forum was offline. The link below is to Scott's My Growth Rings interview of John.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSUnBQfHWs4

Since the interview John has added items to the display racks and hopefully will share them now that the Forum is back up and running.

[jpdalton]

Since the interview John has added items to the display racks and hopefully will share them now that the Forum is back up and running.

Good to be back, Russ! Thanks for sharing the video link. Here’s a couple of shots of the [mostly] loaded accessories display rack. I dug out a few gems for this, and have a few more to go…
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[jpdalton]

Magna’s Multi-Headed Drilling Monster!

Sometime back, I had seen an online listing for a small-scale model of an unusual industrial drilling machine. This was being offered by a Chicago-based business that specializes in small-scale salesman samples - and at an eye-popping price!

While I had no intention of considering their asking price, another example popped up that could be had at something I’d call a more reasonable price. Cool little addition to my collection, and something that has caused me to go off and research this odd item from the early days of Magna Engineering:

I present the Magna Drill (at least the pint-sized edition)!
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[jpdalton]

I present the Magna Drill (at least the pint-sized edition)!

Dr. Hans was quite invested in this product - and a similar small-scale sample was featured for a Life Magazine photo shoot during the Mark 5 era:
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Earlier concepts can be seen in his office for a Saturday Evening Post article in March 1952:
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[thedovetailjoint]

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I’ve attached the patent for the Magna Drill, which is much more fascinating than meets the eye. Long before we had the ability to make compact drill heads, Magna was able to drive a very small headstock with a belt that ran inside the horizontal column back to the motor. It’s quite a brilliant design.

[jpdalton]

the Magna Drill, which is much more fascinating than meets the eye.

Thanks for adding to the discussion, Scott! I think you posted this picture sometime back. Any idea where/when this is from?
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[thedovetailjoint]

John, I believe I found it on the OWWM website. I saved one more pic.

[thedovetailjoint]

Found the post: https://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?f=1& ... ll#p983188