wrote:

Hi Folks,

What is this machine?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...parker-fraley-
wartime-machinist-linked-to-rosie-the-riveter-dies-
at-96/2018/01/23/10335d0e-004e-11e8-8acf-
ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.bb8abd1abc2c

The Washington Post article from which is comes refers to it as a turret
lathe (2/3 the way down the article, and just a "lathe" elsewhere) in this
obituary on "Rosie the Rivetter". But it looks more like a milling
machine with a rotary table than a turret lathe. Is it a gear broach?

Anybody recognize it?

Dan
I think it is a shaper. The tool looks MUCH like a shaper tool, and seems
like it might be held in a clapper box, although it looks kind of different
from what I'm used to seeing. If the setup is the way it was used, and not
just something thrown together for the photo, then she would be cutting a
groove in the FACE of the gear.

Jon