What is this thing?

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Hello,

I recently bought a bunch of reloading equipment and supplies. It was all used and some of it is old. The last box of stuff contained this device. I am not sure what it is for. It appears to be some kind of rolling press to flatten something. Does anyone know?

Let me know if you need a different picture or a better one. The only name on it is "LPR-60"

Thanks,

dzimmerm
 

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whutizzit

Hunh. Looks a lot like the kind of press that artists use to print etchings, but I never saw one so narrow like that. You'd have to specialize in etchings of silos, I guess. :)
 
dzimmerm Quote – “The only name on it is "LPR-60"

Isn’t that a 60 caliber lead point remover?
 
If it is any help

This thing was in the same box that had a lead melting oven, a bullet press, a bullet former, a mold for making cylinders of lead in a variety of calibers and a device for cutting those cylinders into bullet size lengths.

This is the only thing I could not figure out.

There is always the chance it is totally unrelated to reloading or bullet casting.

dzimmerm
 
Send the pictures and a written description to the smithsonian they may be able to help. FWIW it kinda reminds me of a machine my sister has to make sheets of silver and gold but yours is missing the adjusting screws.
 
Just a WASG, it looks like it has a clip on the RH side of the bed...

Maybe its some sort of machine to aid in paper patching bullets?
 
It's a thing-a-ma-callit.


Gizmo?



Whatsit?



Vintage antique of the machine persuasion?


Yeah, I have no idea.
 
If cracked is right, a mechanical paper patcher would be a real prize, that is one of the most tedious things I have ever tried to do.
Otherwise, it looks like no reloading tool I have ever seen in use or illustrated.
 
An early pasta maker ?? Actually since it gear driven it probably used to roll something more substantial than pasta.What is the plate , gears, and roller made from ?
 
What is it made out of

Top roller that you can see with the gears, the plate that it moves, and the bottom roller that you can not see are all made out of some kind steel as I put a magnet to all of those and it stuck. The plate appears to have some kind of anti corrosive coating or treatment on it. I first thought it was heat treated aluminum but it is definately magnetic. That probaby means the plate is made out a very high grade steel.

The base is made out of cast iron, from the rougher finish. That LPR-60 is on the inside of the cast iron base.

Darned it I know anything about paper crimping though. I guess it could squish paper pretty well. It is adjusted to a clearence of about 1 mm judging from the thickness of the copper wire I ran though it to see if it would squoze it flat. It did turn it into a copper strip for about a half inch. It was too hard to easiy turn the handle and I did not want to break it so I did not force the issue.

dzimmerm
 
This isn't an answer, just a similar problem. A friend once gave me a couple boxes of reloading stuff. He had dragged them around for a couple moves and got tired of it. After much puzzlement, I finally asked him what one of the pieces was for. Turns out it was a tool post for an old wood lathe. It had gotten thrown in the wrong box.
 
Necktie Roller

Hmmm, perhaps I need to plan a necktie party since I have the roller, :evil: .

If this is used in reloading in some way it must be either really old or really rare.

I took those pictures with an old intel cheapo pocket camera. I will drag out my wife's fancy Sony camera and take some higher rez shots. I guess I should do six shots like the sides of a cube if I want to send it to the smithsonion.

I have hopes that others who do not log in as often might get a chance to see it on the weekend. I will see if anyone has identified it by monday.

Thanks for the efforts, even the humerous ones.

dzimmerm
 
More info

The Bottom roller is adjustable as to the space between it and the upper roller with the hand crank.

I found this out after taking it apart, or trying to, and finding that the bottom roller was not turning freely. On further inspection I found the bottom roller is supposed to turn on the shaft that goes through it. I managed to take it all apart and clean and lube it. Now it turns on the shaft as it should and the shaft is cut so turning the shaft raises or lowers the rollers position in relation to the top roller with the handle. The bottom roller is adjustable via a flat blade screw slot on the end. It is locked in place by a machien screw that presses against the coller it turns inside of.

Quite a simple mechanism. It is quite capable of squishing copper wire into copper strips now.

Still not sure what it supposed to do.

dzimmerman
 
Then maybe it's a jeweller's tool to make strip of copper or silver.There are rolling mills for jewellers though not the same design.
 
Following Mete's line of thought, maybe its for rolling out copper or brass for jackets or gas checks, did you get any swaging equipment with it?
 
Chawbaccer, now that sounds closer to what it might be for. Good thinking...


I'm really wondering what the heck it is.
 
A brayer?

My wife, and antique afficianado, took one look at it and thought it might be a brayer. This was a device used to apply laminated veneer to understock for fancy moldings. Just a thought.
 
I remember reading a long time ago about bullets that were made from paper, kind of like a rolled cigarrett that contained the powder charge and maybe the projectiles ready for insertion.
If memory serves me right the load was inserted and a cap or flint did the ignition. The wads or bullets has a waxed paper or waxed cloth to aid in keeping them somewhat dry. Think they sandwitched wax between paper or cloth. This machine could be what they used to compress the paper and wax for these loads.
There is a place in northern NJ that is a museum of old guns, SPACE FARMS and I would bet someone there could ID this machine.
Very interesting and it appears to be very well made and substantial in it's construction.
Gary
 
No luck so far on identifying this

GAMALOT,

You are correct in that it is very heavy, and solid. I am wondering if it could be used to roll gold or silver wire into strips for making rings. I still have no idea why it would be with a bunch of bullet making equipment. It was in the same box that had bullet casting and I am guessing swaging, tools.

When I first got it the bottom roller, which is how the thickness is adjusted, was seized. I managed to take it apart and get everything working the way it is supposed to work. The bottom roller rolls on a pin that has eccentric ends so you can adjust the thickness by rotating the pin. The pin has a locking nut so you can lock the eccentric to a particular setting once you have adjusted it.

I did take some thick copper wire and turn it into some copper band by using this. I just wanted to see if it worked. I don't have any gold or silver to try. I imagine it would size lead very easily. I am not sure what use lead strips would be though. There was a lead melting furnice in the box also. I checked and it does still work.

I guess I will need to send pictures off to the smithsonian and see what they say.

dzimmerm
 
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