That's hardly a reason to reject the entire machine,
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http://www.graysonline.com/lot/0051-...suring-machine
fancy looking gadget is it worth a zillion dollars ? will watch and see.
Bill
I'd like it just so I can say I have one. Nice looking gadget whatever it is.
That is a little gem. Prior to electronic CMM machines something like that was used to measure small parts. You would line up edges or features using a microscope and then crank the carriage over to the reference and read off the number. I vaguely recall seeing one at the National Measurement Institute. It would be very heavy and the sort of thing someone who collected optical devices would absolutely love.
Michael
That looks like the one we saw on the National Standards Metrology tour, couldn't figure how it worked then either :D Looked nice.
Ray
This is indeed a little gem. Upwards of US $250,000 (yes that is the right number of zeros) depending on accessories it was the peak of the pre CMM era. Now just a collector's curiosity for those of us interested in old high end metrology. I will be bidding on this but have tried to buy a couple in the past and they generally go way beyond my budget. Unfortunately its not obvious if the usual T slotted table and glass table come with it (it has the dividing head on it at the moment). The glass table allowed illumination from underneath. No obvious centers or the other usual work holding pieces. These machines had a mind boggling array of accessories to choose from all at ridiculous prices. If anyone plans to go and have a look pre auction would love to hear from them.
Thanks
Mark
I see there's another pricey chunk of granite coming up in a couple of weeks from the boeing auctioneers....stored outside rather than a climate controlled room, yikes!
This one hell of a granite table at 1.9 x 5 m!! Inspection grade and has been up for sale since last Boeing auction. I tried to buy it when it was at the sale but they wanted $5000 or so. So it didn't sell and they had to extract it out of the small room it was in and transport it to Bendigo. Not sure who actually owned it (the auctioneers or Boeing still) but now they have tacked it onto there next auction. It has been for private sale at $8000 +BP/GST. Has been stored under a tarp outside for near on 2 years (which I don't think would be a problem) and sitting on some tyres (can these big tables warp?)
Will be interesting to see if it sells this time!
Couldn't remember the tee slots on that one, was wondering what sort of engineers would store something that way and have the possibility of a fork or similar running into it....looks like a car park.
Probably, what, 2 grand to move it down there too.
The first one I think from memory went in the thousands the second the turret model went for $225.
pics or it didn't happen Ray.... You know the rules.. :D
What did the straight edge and those green scraping machines go for?