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09-15-2007, 03:07 PM
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| The Router Guys Forum King  |  My oldest router (1927 patent date) Here are a few photos of my oldest manufactured router by a company called challenge. Things haven't changed much over the last 80 years. Anyone else have some old relics they would like to share. Bob
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09-15-2007, 03:47 PM
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| Retired Moderator Supreme Forum King  | Complete with a work light... and we thought we were being fancy adding lights! Thanks for the pics! Corey
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09-15-2007, 05:07 PM
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| Banned Supreme Forum King  | ... that's older than I am! ...   |
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09-15-2007, 05:58 PM
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| Forum Contributer Supreme Forum King  | Hi Rick Do you want to see one from the 1850's ? -------- The Stanley #55 did and can do it ALL just like the routers will all now use but it takes man power to get the job done... NOTE**** I don't own the ones in the snapshots below they are just pictures of the #55 ,,, I sold mind off along time ago... most are nickle plated. ============== Quote:
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09-15-2007, 10:33 PM
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09-15-2007, 10:55 PM
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| Forum Contributer Supreme Forum King | HI Peter I will need to disagree with you on one point, it can round over the lip but it's true it can't put on a put a fancy edge on a 2" hole in the centre of a piece of wood.. I'm not 100 % sure it can't put on a fancy edge on a 2" hole, they made many blades for the #55... and many add on tools for it... And I think Stanley called the #55 a do all tool.... ================= Quote:
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09-16-2007, 01:51 AM
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| Forum Contributer Supreme Forum King  | I was so amazed at the 1927 router that I looked it up at the US patents office. The patent was applied for by a Mr. Arthur L. Salsbury of Sioux City Iowa on June 3rd 1926 and he states that motorised routing machines are not new, but goes on to state the improvements in HIS machine, which by the way looks far cruder than the one shown by Bob & Rick, indicating that theirs is relatively modern! I have never been a lover of combination machines, firstly, there isn't any substitute for a dedicated machine which is optimised for a particular task, and secondly, remembering what goes where and the time taken to complete the change-over, but now I've seen Bj's post with the manpower router and all those accessories, I doubt that I would have been able to cope.
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09-16-2007, 08:41 AM
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| Retired Moderator Supreme Forum King | Really, didn't know that. Souix City is just north of me by 90 miles. Yeah, that little contraption looks like it would have gotten the best of many! Corey
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09-16-2007, 10:52 PM
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| Registered User Forum King  | My guess is it used a one-flute stainless steel router bit. Onsrud manufactured the first router bit in 1920. Not sure when the first carbide bits were made. I still use this gorgeousness |
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09-17-2007, 10:58 AM
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| Forum Contributer Supreme Forum King | Here's one or two more snapshots and some lnks just for kicks The one below is a bracket I used b/4 I had a router table, the saw is about 48 years. http://www.routerforums.com/attachme...do-job-551.jpg The one below is air type router that I still use from time to time... http://www.routerforums.com/36186-post14.html
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