As I explained some posts ago, my garage is being fully overhauled and reorganized. Because of this, I sold the Pujantell lathe and a Milling/drilling Cincinnati machine. Now I sold also my shaper. It’s a Rile-300 shaper, 300mm being the stroke length. The machine is very similar to other of the same dimensions. Actually, it’s almost identical to Sacia-300, a very usual spanish shaper. I don’t know if Rile is related to Sacia in some way.

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The Antoni Pujantell AP lathe I have been a proud owner of an AP lathe (AP being the initials of the maker: Antoni Pujantell). This lathe is the first machine tool that arrived at home and, after many years of service, I sold it some days ago. It arrived from a scrap dealer in a bad condition: some parts broken, absolutly rusty, geometry worn out because of the use. My father and myself together spend many hours to recover it.

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The milling machine Cincinnati-Chomienne FP30 This entry describes the milling machine Cincinnati-Chomienne model FP30. It has served me a number of years but now it’s on sale. Literature on this machine is scarce. I found only manuals for similar Cincinnati-Chomienne machines and a brochure for this machine that shows its main dimensions. The milling machine is built in France in the late 60’s (acording to the plate the april of 1968).

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