All American Precision Filing Machine
A good friend of mine showed me his die filer, and mentioned how much he liked it. It was not a machine he used much but when needed there was nothing else like it. He had an All American the same model listed here. I did a little more research and decided to keep an eye out for one. As they are not a common machine they are rather hard to come by, and carry a pretty price tag when found.
To make a long story short I was looking for a larger lathe, and was scanning the local want ads one day and happened to come accost an ad for a large lathe in the St. Louis area. The add also mentioned that there was a die filer available. I called and made arrangements to look at the lathe. I was happy with the lathe but was told that I had to take the die filer and a bunch of other stuff with it!
(LUCKY ME!, As my wife would say)
6-6-2009 – Such Luck! The wife and I were out hitting a few yard sales. I was looking over a few tools at one of the sales and guess what I found? Asking price .25 each!
A fellow HSM on the net offered to send me a photocopy of the manual. I lost his contact information so can not give him proper credit here. I have scanned it in and converted it to a pdf, and include it here.
If you have any additional information on this machine that you would like to share, please forward it to me for inclusion on this page for all to enjoy!
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- Honing Attachment Manual Photos 1 2 3
- Sawing Attachment Manual – Shop Note Photos 1 2
Possible Sources for Machine Files
Victor Machinery lists 8″ parallel machine files, that are Made in USA
- Victor Machinery
- Federal File Co also Lists Machine Files on their Site.
- Machine Shop Discount Supply As some file Selections.
This is one of the nicest samples of this machine I have seen. It is not mine, the photos are included here with permission from the owner, who originally posted these photos on the Practical Machinist board. Here is a link to his post.
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1035851&posted=1
