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Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: dimwittedmoose51 on September 03, 2012, 09:09:51 PM

Title: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on September 03, 2012, 09:09:51 PM

Already posted this to General Discussion, but didn't want to leave out the metal folk.  found this in a farm "liquidation" sale for $10(read the story on GD) and it runs just fine.  May need a chuck key for it, but it is made by King Seeley and maybe made shortly after 2nd world War ended??  Numbers/letters on the plate(3rd photo) go like this  top line N  Second line has 18921-108  and third line is K 6 N.  If someone can translate that and maybe give me some advise as to what to lubricate and what the left side buttons and levers do.......and yes, it must weigh at least 200 pounds.

Any help would be a plus

Thanks

DM&FS

Title: Re: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: Provincial on September 03, 2012, 10:23:02 PM

DWM, does it have a pulley in additon to the spindle and motor, with two belts? 

I think the casting numbers are in the motor mount.  Is this correct?  If so, they don't relate to the model number.  Is there an aluminum data tag on it anywhere?  It should have a spot for a model number.  The Craftsman model prefix for King Seeley (Central Specialty Company) was 103.xxxxx.  It looks like a King Seeley product.

Title: Re: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: dimwittedmoose51 on September 04, 2012, 03:05:37 AM

Provincial, I'll check things ot a little closer tomorrow when I have full daylight!!

Thanks

DM&FS

Title: Re: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: geneg on September 04, 2012, 06:19:05 AM

I seem to be having trouble with attachments this morning.   59-60 catalog  + 1957 ones I didn't get attached

Title: Re: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: Branson on September 04, 2012, 10:49:54 AM

Here's a little more clear catalog page.  See the jeweled metal strip?  That's on all of the Cman marked machines, but absent from the Dunlaps by 1956.  The '59 catalog shows the jeweled band, but the logo has changed to the crown logo.

Title: Re: Need Help With This Beauty
Post by: Branson on September 04, 2012, 06:27:54 PM

Quote from: FrankLee on September 04, 2012, 11:02:19 AM

IIRC, the '52s and '53s did not have the head band... at least it's absent in then pictures in those catalogs and absent on my dp.

Well, this is strange.  It's there in the catalogs for 1948, 49, 50, 54, 55 and 56.  I don't have a power tool catalog for '57 or 58. 
Why did they just put the logo on (as they did with the Dunlaps all along) for 1953 and 1952?  And then return to their older
practice with the jeweled band?