Shopsmith's ancestor?

[pieceseeker]

Wow! That engine compartment looks adorned with J.C. Witney parts!

My brother bought from them too.

[fredsheldon]

Me too. That's how Ralph made his fame.

Ed

Rightly so. I traded ends a couple of times in one myself.

[Ed in Tampa]

Weird belt check out a belly mower on an old international Cub Tractor. Those belts have about 5 twists in them. My father in law who is a top notch mechanic spent the good part of an afternoon trying to figure out how to route it after the original broke. When I saw what he ended up with I told him he had done something wrong and he told me to fix it.

I spent a whole afternoon trying it this way and that way when I got finished it looked just like how it did for him.


As for Corvairs best car I ever owned. 60-64 had equal length swing arms so that as the car lifted the wheels leaned in. 65-69 had unequal length swing arms and tires rode up and down like a corvette suspension.

Car would go through snow like a St Bernard, loved the gas heater, instant heat and the car was rugged. I once drove an old one down a snow covered mountain side bouncing off trees on the way down. Long story I was a kid and having a lot of fun beating my buddy to the bottom of the mountain.

Never had any maintaince problems. However if you overfilled it with oil it would blow the valve seals. If you were careful adding oil it took about 1/2a quart less than most other cars on an oil change, hence many valve seals were blown, it would last forever.

I would buy a Corvair today if they were still made.

[pieceseeker]

I don't recall what year my brother's corvair was, but I believe it was a later model. It had an automatic, shifter on the dash panel. He loved that car, till he got a Triumph 4A, red w/ white convertible top.

[heathicus]

Back to the original post... I finally found it! It's a contemporary of the Shopsmith Model 10ER from the late 40s to early 50s. It's called the "Universal Woodworker" and was made by a company called Emrick, Inc. Like the Shopsmith, it boasted "5 tools in 1" - Lathe, Drill Press, Saw, Sander, and Grinder.

More info here: http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/de ... =291&tab=4

[berry]

I drove by a corn field corvair this weekend along US Hwy 61 (along the Mississippi in Minnesota). It didn't look in bad shape. I'll wager it's waiting for someone to take it home and give it some tlc.

[frank81]

I drove by a corn field corvair this weekend along US Hwy 61 (along the Mississippi in Minnesota). It didn't look in bad shape. I'll wager it's waiting for someone to take it home and give it some tlc.

Ever taken a corn field car home? TLC is an understatement. Is there an acronym for "down to the frame and lots of welding?"

[pieceseeker]

Back to the original post... I finally found it! It's a contemporary of the Shopsmith Model 10ER from the late 40s to early 50s. It's called the "Universal Woodworker" and was made by a company called Emrick, Inc. Like the Shopsmith, it boasted "5 tools in 1" - Lathe, Drill Press, Saw, Sander, and Grinder.

More info here: http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/de ... =291&tab=4

Great job! It's always nice to be able to figure out who made a particular machine and some of the history behind it.

Thanks!

[pieceseeker]

While I'm on the subject of old machinery, here's one I found while surfing around the web.

The "Cresent Universal Woodworker"

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And this is the "Rembrandt" of restorations.....

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Is that knockout gorgeous or what???

[heathicus]

That is beautiful! I can't stop looking at it...