Old Comet redial arm saw frame. The moving plate bolts to the table, and the bottom crank moves the frame (with the missing saw motor) up and down. The motor and blade slides along the square shaft. Cool find!
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What you have there is the frame for an older Industrial Radial Arm saw. It would have been in a cabinet shop or a lumber mill used for trimming boards to length. The motor and blade head are missing from the end of the square section where the Half Moon metal piece is.
Believe the previous two commenters have nailed it. An early radial arm saw with some pieces missing. At the hands of a skilled craftsman this could be resurrected to a useful life again. 👍👍👍
I’m 69 and we had a radial arm saw in our basement in my father’s woodworking shop….the precursor to the chop saws of today, but you could do amazing work with them…my father had dadoes with his and tons of blades. It was mounted on a 10 foot table. I learned how to use power tools on that and his 10 inch craftsman table saw when I was seven (62 years ago now) I think his might have been a Dewalt.
Get a big bottle of phosphoric acid and a half inch artists brush. Take a picture of the before and after the rust is gone away. It will be ready to prime and paint BUT it would look really nice being glassed in black 😅
Yes a radial arm saw. Id like to have it to make it into a radial drillpress. Ive considered using a more recent radial armsaw to do just this porpose , but the frames of the more modern saws are just too flimbsy. That solid base would be great. Or you could simply add a sawhead to what you have.
As a cabinet Maker who worked in the industry for over 40 years I concur with the previous posts it is the redial arm of a redial arm saw. It is a nice antique but not worth restoring. As someone who has used redial arm saws I can say they are in the top 10 most dangerous tools in the cabinet shop. Of course that is true with all saws. I don't wish to say how many of my coworkers lost more then one digit to something as common as a simple saw. Redial arm saws are notorious with binding and kick-backs, that is why they are no longer being manufactured.
boy that is an antique heavy duty saw tool. at first, I thought it was a scale at first, but problem with that is that you had the wheel down at the bottom of the tool that you stuck into the ground. later, when you took the tool down to the grown, it was then I noticed the attached rod had a split inside. i that point i realized it was a saw tool that uses serrated round blades to cut wood. someone said its missing lots of part. it probably is. good luck on finding those parts. if you can't find it. it is possible to make a mold of whoever has the machine that has all the parts.
RADIAL ARM SAW You could use it to rip boards or square cut all so notch out Could put a daydoe head on it for milling out joints use it for a saw bench as well Used one when doing my joinery apprenticeship old time stuff from the 1900 to 1960s Barry New Zealand down under house builders
Get a copy of the old sears catalog like 1908 etcetera and look at all of the equipment sections . I would have paid 5 just for the spinning handel alone
Looks like something I remember that my dentist had in his office when I was a boy, still looking for that A-holes grave, so I can share a beer with him, after it passes thru my kidneys!
It looks like to me that it’s one of the old 1920s something Dewalt when Dewalt came up with the Radialarm saw it had that square shaft that moved back-and-forth with the motor that would’ve been mounted in that little carriage out on the end. That’s my guess I have on it and that’s from seeing one picture of the thing before.
When you buy things that you have no idea what they are. Do you have a thought in your brain how you gonna repurpose it or just add it to your junk pile? I don’t mean to sound rude or disrespectful, but I was just wondering, you have a great day.
When I saw the adjustment on the bottom foot, I thought it might be a fancy barbecue rotisserie, but the 90ish degree end rotation and the dual 60 degree top rotations nixed that though. Fascinating device, whatever it is. Doesn't look a thing like the last '60s RAS I saw at a friend's.
Old Comet redial arm saw frame. The moving plate bolts to the table, and the bottom crank moves the frame (with the missing saw motor) up and down. The motor and blade slides along the square shaft. Cool find!
Hello thanks for the comment.... Others have suggested. It was the comments also and I searched. And did not see any with the square shaft. But do agree it's radio arm. Please subscribe to my channel
That's what I thought too.
What you have there is the frame for an older Industrial Radial Arm saw. It would have been in a cabinet shop or a lumber mill used for trimming boards to length. The motor and blade head are missing from the end of the square section where the Half Moon metal piece is.
Comet Radial Arm Saw, 1950s era Too bad it didn't have the motor head.
Believe the previous two commenters have nailed it. An early radial arm saw with some pieces missing. At the hands of a skilled craftsman this could be resurrected to a useful life again. 👍👍👍
I’m 72. My dad had a radial arm saw and this sure looks like the arm part of the one he had.
You don't see these every day! Congrats, cool find plus I got to see some really scary saws when I searched "Comet Radial Arm Saw".
I’m 69 and we had a radial arm saw in our basement in my father’s woodworking shop….the precursor to the chop saws of today, but you could do amazing work with them…my father had dadoes with his and tons of blades. It was mounted on a 10 foot table. I learned how to use power tools on that and his 10 inch craftsman table saw when I was seven (62 years ago now) I think his might have been a Dewalt.
Not to mention that they were great for removing fingers etc..That's why they were discontinued.
Get a big bottle of phosphoric acid and a half inch artists brush. Take a picture of the before and after the rust is gone away.
It will be ready to prime and paint BUT it would look really nice being glassed in black 😅
What a beauty. the orientation of the numbers shows that it is mounted vertically.
Yes a radial arm saw. Id like to have it to make it into a radial drillpress. Ive considered using a more recent radial armsaw to do just this porpose , but the frames of the more modern saws are just too flimbsy. That solid base would be great. Or you could simply add a sawhead to what you have.
As a cabinet Maker who worked in the industry for over 40 years I concur with the previous posts it is the redial arm of a redial arm saw. It is a nice antique but not worth restoring. As someone who has used redial arm saws I can say they are in the top 10 most dangerous tools in the cabinet shop. Of course that is true with all saws. I don't wish to say how many of my coworkers lost more then one digit to something as common as a simple saw. Redial arm saws are notorious with binding and kick-backs, that is why they are no longer being manufactured.
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boy that is an antique heavy duty saw tool.
at first, I thought it was a scale at first, but problem with that is that you had the wheel down at the bottom of the tool that you stuck into the ground.
later, when you took the tool down to the grown, it was then I noticed the attached rod had a split inside. i that point i realized it was a saw tool that uses serrated round blades to cut wood.
someone said its missing lots of part. it probably is.
good luck on finding those parts. if you can't find it. it is possible to make a mold of whoever has the machine that has all the parts.
RADIAL ARM SAW You could use it to rip boards or square cut all so notch out
Could put a daydoe head on it for milling out joints use it for a saw bench as well
Used one when doing my joinery apprenticeship old time stuff from the 1900 to 1960s
Barry New Zealand down under house builders
Get a copy of the old sears catalog like 1908 etcetera and look at all of the equipment sections . I would have paid 5 just for the spinning handel alone
yep, radial arm saw, the skill saw mounts on the end.
You are correct. As I have one similar but not as old.
I agree with the Radial Arm saw guesses
Looks like something I remember that my dentist had in his office when I was a boy, still looking for that A-holes grave, so I can share a beer with him, after it passes thru my kidneys!
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It looks like to me that it’s one of the old 1920s something Dewalt when Dewalt came up with the Radialarm saw it had that square shaft that moved back-and-forth with the motor that would’ve been mounted in that little carriage out on the end. That’s my guess I have on it and that’s from seeing one picture of the thing before.
Radial arm saw?
Radial arm saw or drill press attachment?
I like old auction stuff to
Why would you spend money on stuff that you know nothing about and therefore don't need? A saying springs to mind: "More money than sense"
Radial arm saw for sure
An adjustable thing-a-mabob
It's a thing a bob for a thing of imaging. All kidding aside could it be used on a lathe
Part of an early Comet Radial Arm Saw.
Try doing a photo google search but i thought it was a clamp of sorts but im in agreement with above its some kind of lathe fixture
It's off a lathe. it fits horizontal
something tells me it needs to be turned 90 degrees left for proper position
Part of a milling machine.
interesting.
Off a lathe for
Radil arm saw or drill motoy
When you buy things that you have no idea what they are. Do you have a thought in your brain how you gonna repurpose it or just add it to your junk pile? I don’t mean to sound rude or disrespectful, but I was just wondering, you have a great day.
It's missing A LOT of parts.
Boat anchor
Looks like a few pounds of scrap iron. :)
Hope you didn’t pay much for it, lol.
When I saw the adjustment on the bottom foot, I thought it might be a fancy barbecue rotisserie, but the 90ish degree end rotation and the dual 60 degree top rotations nixed that though. Fascinating device, whatever it is. Doesn't look a thing like the last '60s RAS I saw at a friend's.
this is the safest this tool has ever been
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Radial Arm saw frame