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I found this on Craig's list and picked this up during lunch from a nearby neighbor I didn't even know. Took less than 30 minutes to go and return.All iron frame. Weighs like a baby elephant! Top surface is 24 x 57. Once I get a ½ steel plate on it to replace that flimsy ¾ plywood it will weigh like a hippopotamus! Attached ImagesMember, AWSLincoln ProMIG 140Lincoln AC TombstoneCraftsman Lathe 12 x 24 c1935Atlas MFC Horizontal MillCraftsman Commercial Lathe 12 x 36 c1970- - - I'll just keep on keepin' on.
Reply:HI Mondo, Thats a great find. I love it when you give an old machine or in your case a stand a new life. If you use your imagination with a little vision almost anything can be used for something other than its intended use. Thats going to make a great welding bench. Good job.
Reply:Nice score!(Retired) Professional firefighter, amateur everything else I try to do...Oh yeah: Go Big Red! (You know: one of the 12 members of the Big 10 cuz we left the 10 members of the Big 12...)
Reply:That thing's cool... I wanna see pics of it when it's finished!Any guesses on its original use?Work HARDER, not smarter! ------------------------ Miller Bobcat 250Millermatic 251Lincoln Precision TIG 185Hypertherm PM 600Hobart 135 HandlerOxweld 400 FlameMaster
Reply:It looks like an old Atlas / Craftsman lathe stand?Miller 330 A/BP Bernard SS coolerMiller cst 250Miller Big Blue 251DCentury 210 Mig (first welder I bought)Hypertherm PowerMax 800Victor torch setRu Fong 31 MilAtlas lathe
Reply:It is assembled from three castings, a front and read legs casting, and a top support frame casting. The leg castings each have "BG Luther, & Co." cast into the upper cross bar, and "Worscester, Mass." cast into the lower cross bar. A Google search produces records that show Benjamin G Luther worked for a drill press manufacturing company, Prentice Brothers, in Worcester, MA. In 1890 he left Prentice and started his own company making wood working machinery. The search looses track of his company around 1920.There are several patents for woodworking machinery for BG Luther, but none of the pictures of those machines reveal a frame like this. But it stands to reason this was a base for some sort of woodworking machine in a New England mill. The fellow I bought it from siad his father was a boat builder and this was a bench in Dad's shop as long as he can remember. He has no idea where his dad found it.I hope to have it cleaned up by Columbus Day. I have no idea when I will have the steel plate top for it. It is just a matter of time and money.-MondoMember, AWSLincoln ProMIG 140Lincoln AC TombstoneCraftsman Lathe 12 x 24 c1935Atlas MFC Horizontal MillCraftsman Commercial Lathe 12 x 36 c1970- - - I'll just keep on keepin' on.
Reply:Nice... I own a 87 troopie (rust is slowly owning it )I ride a quadand I love sticking metal together. And I live in OZ... (Geelong)
Reply:Originally Posted by MondoIt is assembled from three castings, a front and read legs casting, and a top support frame casting. The leg castings each have "BG Luther, & Co." cast into the upper cross bar, and "Worscester, Mass." cast into the lower cross bar. A Google search produces records that show Benjamin G Luther worked for a drill press manufacturing company, Prentice Brothers, in Worcester, MA. In 1890 he left Prentice and started his own company making wood working machinery. The search looses track of his company around 1920.There are several patents for woodworking machinery for BG Luther, but none of the pictures of those machines reveal a frame like this. But it stands to reason this was a base for some sort of woodworking machine in a New England mill. The fellow I bought it from siad his father was a boat builder and this was a bench in Dad's shop as long as he can remember. He has no idea where his dad found it.I hope to have it cleaned up by Columbus Day. I have no idea when I will have the steel plate top for it. It is just a matter of time and money.-Mondo |
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