I'm really glad to be fixing this up -- it has been sitting on the shelf for years in my house just asking to be worked on. When I first bought it at auction I didn't even own a mill.
The auction was at an old pump manufacturing site, now out of business. Might have been a Hayward Tyler plant -- but I don't remember for sure. Seemed like it must have been closed for a decade from the looks of it.
They had pattern making facilities, lots of screw making machines, etc. I snagged a barrel of bronze and brass scrap and another of aluminum in the screw machine room together for $75. Several hundredweight. This dividing head with the chuck and tailstock went for $50. I also bought a cast iron surface plate and cast iron straightedge for $25 each. I was basically out of money at that point and saw much more important stuff go all day long. Quite exhiirating to be there and just wander through the place, making bids sometimes I knew would lose. But wow!
Anyway got this one apart as far as I could. It was kind of like a Chinese puzzle -- I'm still not sure how they got this thing together beyond the point I got to.
