08-09-2013, 08:54 AM
Sorta bring those that are interested in this project up to date.
In my quest to find a photo that shows the ratchet mech. in all its glory I ran into the Cincinnati Incorporated website, original makers of the shaper way back in the early 20 century around 1910 under the name of Cincinnati Shaper company, in Cincinnati Ohio.
So I sent them and email and ask if they had a photo that I might be able to look at that would show the table feed mech well enough that I could make one that would resemble it.
In a reply to my email I was told that I might be able to find a copy of the manual on Ebay for around 50 dollars, now I think thats a little steep for a guy that just wants to look at a photo. The guy that sent me the email also informed me that they still sold parts for the shaper so I sent him a picture of what I had made and ask if they had one.
Here's were it gets good, I received an Email from a guy in parts, saying that they needed the Serial Number, so I go get the number off the machine all four digits of it 6384 and sent it to him, he responds saying that its suppose to be 5 digits and tells me where to look, so I go look where he said and take a picture of the number its still the same four digits and sent it to him. He replied that the machine wasn't made by them
Co I sent him a picture of the door on the shaper which plainly says
![[Image: cinci16_1.jpg]](http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd484/Superdave257/cinci16_1.jpg)
guess it was made before the factory burned down and they rebuild and made major changes to the shaper line. Which is about when I think they came out with the more versatile Universal Shapers which have tables that can be rotated to either side and have a drive shaft that operates the table feed, not sure about when that actually happened thou.
DA
In my quest to find a photo that shows the ratchet mech. in all its glory I ran into the Cincinnati Incorporated website, original makers of the shaper way back in the early 20 century around 1910 under the name of Cincinnati Shaper company, in Cincinnati Ohio.
So I sent them and email and ask if they had a photo that I might be able to look at that would show the table feed mech well enough that I could make one that would resemble it.
In a reply to my email I was told that I might be able to find a copy of the manual on Ebay for around 50 dollars, now I think thats a little steep for a guy that just wants to look at a photo. The guy that sent me the email also informed me that they still sold parts for the shaper so I sent him a picture of what I had made and ask if they had one.
Here's were it gets good, I received an Email from a guy in parts, saying that they needed the Serial Number, so I go get the number off the machine all four digits of it 6384 and sent it to him, he responds saying that its suppose to be 5 digits and tells me where to look, so I go look where he said and take a picture of the number its still the same four digits and sent it to him. He replied that the machine wasn't made by them
Co I sent him a picture of the door on the shaper which plainly says
![[Image: cinci16_1.jpg]](http://s1222.photobucket.com/user/Superdave257/media/cinci16_1.jpg.html)
guess it was made before the factory burned down and they rebuild and made major changes to the shaper line. Which is about when I think they came out with the more versatile Universal Shapers which have tables that can be rotated to either side and have a drive shaft that operates the table feed, not sure about when that actually happened thou.
DA
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