OH BOY! Got me a new tool...and it's OLD!

I could't find one of those babys, so I got one of those cheeps ones from the Model A huxters. It did about 20 rivets and the punch started to bend. SO I went to our friendly machine shop and had a new punch made out of drill stock. That fixed it and it works well, till I find one of those babys. Iceman

 

Believe it or not, the manufacturer is still in business: http://www.chicagorivet.com/ Prolly get the date of manufacture from them.

 

Now just set yourself up for re-arching shoes and linings and you're in business!! Not many left doing re-arching.

 

I have one sitting in my shop, I think my grandfather bought it as WW II surplus

 

I would but my wife would probably be pissed. I bet we'd have a good time though....

 

Great piece. I love old stuff that's generally useless these days.

(Guess that's why I'm still married!)

 

My father just picked up a complete manual tire changer from the 1940's... same shape as this piece... used but still has a lot of good life left... with a garage and family full of old cars, always nice to have the old shop tools such as this, and you're right, very economical to come by...

I agree with the others too chris... if people were to blast, paint, and send you thier lining-less shoes... boy you could install the new linings and send right back out... sounds like a nice side/hobby business opportunity to me... of course it's easy to say since we're not the ones doing the work, and not sure how tedious/monotanous re-lining the shoes really is... must be some reason few do it today!

 

Fixing ******s in San Fransisco?

 

It's really easy, getting the old linings off and cleaning the shoes is the *****! Maybe I will give it a wirl. Set price for just a re-line, more if I gotta remove linings and clean cores? You can rivet a set (one axle) of early Fords in about 15-20 minutes.
Lemme get used to the machine and look for an add here on the HAMB

 

I agree with everyone else your should start a side business, I already started gathering up inventory for you. Look at the positives, it will help subsidize your chrome plating bill every month.

 

Chris,I think that if people realised this service was available,you'd be very busy!

 

Mark, Is that YOU?

Nick.

 

No,Nick,just a guy I'm ****ging.Well,it's better than sheep!

 

Nice score Chris. I got mine off CL for $40. And it works. I did alot of reasearch on it and called Chicago Rivet and Machine. Some parts are still available, but most will have to be made. There's no way to date them according to C.R. & M. They were made from the mid 1920's thru the early 1960's and they didn't use date indexable serial numbers. I do know mine was bought new in 1942 from some paperwork that was crammed up inside it. The serial numbers were ascending numerical so your's appears to be earlier than mine. Anyways, here's mine.

 

Chris,any chance of close-up pics of the tool head?I'm wondering if I could make one up to use in my fly press.
Thanks,
Mark

 

Fairplay Mark, He's a LOOKER!Here we go ruining somebodies thread again, SORRY Chris!

Nick.

 

By the way, I didn't mean to hijack the thread...just wanted some folks to know, they are out there and can be had cheap.

 

stop that

 

re-arcing the shoes is a very important step. back in the 80's their were days at the reman business i was employed i was stuck running a brake shoe arcing machine for days at a time, talk about mind numbing. chris if you do reline some brake shoes for other people check into the liabilities involved. cool machine though!