Auto Hone information?

[jmercer]

Ok, it has been a couple months since this fun image was posted. I've been trying to find any information on this machine. Image searches and Gogglings pulls nothing. Looking at image the cloth braided power cord looks like 20s & 30s vintage as does the motor and switch.

This image was posted in thread Idea for measuring "honing pressure" in order to communicate it ...

Looks like a large adjustable counter weight over the top that looks like it sets the honing pressure.

gssixgun can you share anymore information? I would kill for a video of this machine in action.

Just leaving this here for fun



Yes it really is an electric SR honing machine

[kaptain_zero]

I found a video and some information that it hails from around 1914.

I just checked and it does not not appear that you can play the video directly from this post.
If it doesn't work, just click on the bottom right corner where it says Vimeo, and it should open a new tab
or window, and you can play it from there.




Regards

Kaptain "Keyboard massaging... it's a fine art" Zero

Edit:

I would kill for a video of this machine in action.

jmercer, please don't!

[jmercer]

I found a video and some information that it hails from around 1914.

I just checked and it does not not appear that you can play the video directly from this post.
If it doesn't work, just click on the bottom right corner where it says Vimeo, and it should open a new tab
or window, and you can play it from there.




Regards

Kaptain "Keyboard massaging... it's a fine art" Zero

Edit:


jmercer, please don't!

WOW! Nice find. Thank you.

1914

Amazing the hone is moved to create the X pattern. That is clever. Looks like it could be quite effective once dialed in.

[kaptain_zero]

Just think... with a couple dozen of these machines, we could put guys like GSsixgun and Lynn out of business....

Regards

Kaptain "Waddayamean it doesn't work with warped razors? ALL my razors are warped!" Zero

[Utopian]

OK, I admit it. For a brief time the one in the upper photo, or one that looked exactly like it, was in my possession. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for it and played with it for a few weeks and then returned it. The reason was that the seller absolutely insisted that the mounted hone was an Escher. I warned him that it did not look like an Escher, but rather a synthetic hone. I told him that if it was not an Escher I would either return it or expected some adjustment in the price. I went out of my way to get him to understand that it was not an Escher but he stood his ground. I made it clear that my purchase was conditional on the hone being an Escher.

When I received it, of course it was a synthetic hone, just as I had told the guy. He refused to make any adjustment on the price and I was not willing to let him get away with the con, so I returned it. If he had taken off a couple hundred bucks, or even ever been willing to admit his "mistake," I would have kept it; but he was unrelenting in his insistence that it was an Escher. He refused to return my money so I had to take it up with ebay. The same Escher/synthetic argument occurred there and the failure of his argument simply was due to his insistence that synthetic hones did not exist yet in 1914. I showed a couple of Popular Mechanics ads for Carborundum hones from about 10 years prior to that and so he lost his argument.

I really did not want to return it. I don't tend even to let go of hones, so letting go of this was much more difficult!