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Re: Old shop equipment
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Originally Posted by artdutra04
The Bridgeport milling machine that my team owns is at least 60 years old, but we still love it. Our lathe is not isn't that old, but almost every other powered tool in our school's shop still has "Made in the USA" metal plates on the side of them. Except for one of the drill presses, which has a lot of "character", most of the tools still work perfectly fine despite being decades old.
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Wow that is almost the same Bridgeport that we have!! We got ours from Mobil when they closed a facility near us. Its a great machine and with some money from our Sponsor BMS we had it upgraded with digital readouts, its an awesome tool.
We also have an old Monarch Lather I could not give you a build time, bur probably shortly after WW2, its an awesome lathe!
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