I found a good deal through craiglist on a woodworking drum sander. It was a long trip from Michigan to Indiana to pick it up, but well worth it. The sander was being sold by a really nice lady whose husband had passed away. I was surprised to see that his main hobby was machining (my passion as well). His shop was the most amazing home machinist shop I have ever seen (that includes the web). As you can see by these photos… he spent quite a bit of money on his hobby, but he was able to pay for it all by doing paid machining jobs. I wish I had known him. Enjoy!
Huge automated bandsaw, makes my $200 bandsaw look tiny.
I wish I had brought a wide angle lense to get better shots of the shop. I had to use image stitching software to combine multiple images so that I could show complete images of some of the machines.
This chuck was massive!
The amount of tooling and such was astounding to me.
A Fadal VMC 3016 CNC machine.
Okuma LB15 CNC machine.
This is amazing. In any developing country this guy’s workshop would be a major industry! What kind of jobs did he do?
Wish I had known him too. I’ll bet he had so much knowledge to share with us.
Thanks for posting this.
of course amazing, I love cnc machines and cnc workshops, although the machines are old but look amazing. Especially the pic of Chuck make me think my past.