My new toy - steel guillotine

[droopsnoot]

Found this at a local classic car show the other week:

I've been doing a lot of cutting of 16 and 18 gauge steel for my restoration project, and while I can get by with grinder, nibbler, hacksaw and so on, cutting a plate out is quite time-consuming, particuarly for the thicker steel. So this works quite nicely. Came to me without a handle, but a mate donated an old trolley-jack handle. Cuts 18 gauge like paper, and 16 gauge like cardboard.

I wish the seller hadn't painted it, and more than that I wish he'd de-greased it before painting it, so at least it would dry. But it cuts, that's the main thing.

 

[rtcosic]

Cuts 18 gauge like paper, and 16 gauge like cardboard.

Nice find!

I wish the seller hadn't painted it, and more than that I wish he'd de-greased it before painting it, so at least it would dry. But it cuts, that's the main thing.

Nitromors, bung it in your electrolytic bath paint it to match all your other tools and add the result to my Important Jobs thread!

 

[droopsnoot]

It crossed my mind (apart from having to get a much bigger bucket), then I remembered I bought it to help me do other stuff, not as a project in its own right. So maybe after I've finished the bodywork job I'll start restoring the tools...

 

[Wedg1e]

I was at a client's place a couple of years ago dismantling an x-ray cabinet. Their health and safety Nazis had said it had to be done by an 'expert' as there was a risk of contamination. Utter horse-poo, when you switch an x-ray set off there's no risk whatsoever
Anyway, my oppo and I stripped the x-ray kit out, dismantled the cabinet to its steel frame, a colection of electrical switches and a pile of plywood panels and shifted the metalwork to their scrap skip.
Leaning against the skip was one of those guillotines, made by Peddinghaus.
Of course I had to cheekily ask if it was up for grabs and the guy told me it was, so I slung it in the van It had brand new blades fitted; clamp it in my bench vice and it works a storm.

I'd have had the lathe they were scrapping as well but it weighed about three tonnes. However I did grab the board of 5C collets from it and subsequently flogged them on Ebay for £40
Annoyingly I then went and bought a bigger lathe and now I have no collets for it...
The electrical switches also went on Ebay; Guardmaster interlock stuff isn't cheap!

Oh, did I mention the panels we stripped from the xray cabinet...? Well of course we told the client we'd get rid of the panels so the wood wasn't in their way. On the way back to the office we stopped in a layby and stripped the lead sheeting (used to stop radiation leakage) from the plywood, nipped into the scrapyard and pocketed £330.

Er... guillotine....yeah, nice

 

[graffian]

I have one of those bench knives, stick a bit of scaffolding on it and you can shear 1/4 plate. Mine has sat in the hedge for 25 years, gets dragged out and used every now and again, my mate moaned at me when he saw it, he spent a day surface grinding the blades and getting it to cut absolutly perfect;-)

I used to frequent the hospital dump. They throw away a lot of good ****.
When they built the 'new' hospital in the 70's they put in an air ring main as they used air tools in theatres and cashulty, they were used BOC air cylinders. They installed two compressors, Ingersol Rand pumps with 25 hp motors. They never used them and in the mid 80's they scrapped them. I happened to be in a compressor place and mentioned it to him, next time I saw him he gave me a hundred quid, I always wondered what he made on them.

 

[the snooper]

you have no right to boast about your guillotine when i dont have one