On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 19:19:30 GMT, "DaveK" wrote:


I bought my first real machine tool yesterday, a 7" Rhodes shaper in very
good condition The funny thing is, after looking for a cheap mill or
shaper for several years, I decided to build the Gingery shaper. I built
the lathe many years ago (1994-96?) after being inspired by this group, and
am about 6 patterns into the shaper when this fellow at work had a garage
sale which included the Rhodes. I bought it for $250 Canadian and it came
with a reasonable vice, a nice rotary table, and a small (8" or so) bench
center with two dividing plates ! You can still see the flake marks on the
ways, everything seems to be there, the machine runs smooth as silk and the
auto-feed aparatus works perfectly. There is hardly a chip out of the paint
! OK, so maybe I should have included the word 'gloat' in the subject line
...

Sounds nice. :-)

Now I have some newbie-Rhodes owner questions. After some searching I could
not find any references to manuals on-line. I checked the FAQ and googled a
bit, but nothing. Wasn't there a fellow with a web site that had a large
collection of manuals and sells reproductions ? Or is there a fellow Rhodes
shaper owner who would be willing to copy the manual and mail it out (I'd be
willing to compensate for time and costs etc) ? Next, as Dave Gingery says,
"OK, now you have a shaper, you're gonna need a manual". Is it just me or
has the selection of titles at Lindsay Books gone down ? Or does their
website not list all titles ? Anyway, does anyone have a recommendation for
some shaper operations books ?
someone in Canada wants them, but maybe sending a little parcel like this

I think if you'll look at Lindsays site they state that all the
books are not listed on the web site. You have to send for the catalog
to get the full listing. I looked a while back and noticed that there
wasn't much listed for shapers. But there's lots of shaper books
listed by resellers on ebay thus I'm sure they're still printing them.

Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook