Back at the cherry st site.

[John E. Williams]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Might Tony be using it to matt the ribs for the $50K Remington Parkers?

As a tool and die maker, I would absolutely LOVE to see that machine being set up and then cutting a rib!

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

Dean-----I would think not, with the advent of CNC machines the process can be done more accurately and quicker

Right - Good point Allan.





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[Jean Swanson]

I know there are others out there that have ORIGINAL Parker rib machines , it would only take a lot of time and effort to find one that a person/company would be willing to dispose of. Good luck !!! If I were younger , I would find one.

Think of this question---Do you think Parker Brothers only had ONE rib machine ???

[Double Play]

Originally Posted by Gary Carmichael Sr

I would like to get up to Meriden and see that building before i leave here, I bet you can feel "feel" the presence of the old guys who worked there! Gary

Gary,
If your ever traveling through the area give me a call and I will take you over there. Last year Dave and I took founding member Fred Stump and his wife to view the Parker grave sites, the Meriden Historical Society, and the old PB factory site. I'm not sure the neighbors have figured out why people would stop on a dead end street to pick up old bricks.

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

Think of this question---Do you think Parker Brothers only had ONE rib machine ???

A well run manufacturing company wouldn't limit themselves to only one machine that was depended upon to produce 5,000 matted ribs per year, let alone the fact that machines break down and can put production way behind schedule without at least one or two backup machines.


A guy would be pretty hard pressed to even find a single whole brick there anymore. The place has been so well bulldozed and the rubble is just about all crushed and crumbled brick and mortar. I have seen some bricks from the area purported to be from the original Parker Bros. factory but which are much too recently made to be from the Gun Works.





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[Autumn Daze]

I know where they are

[John E. Williams]

Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

I know where they are

The bricks or the rib mills?

[Autumn Daze]

Sorry for being so curt. I was on my I-phone in the shop. I was referring to available whole bricks from the factory site. There is an area on the lot that still holds a fair amount of whole bricks.

As far as the rib matting machine goes the last I saw of it was at Tony's place. The machine is more of a micro shaper than a mill. I would love to play with it as I have a lot of literature on it and it looks like fun.

[John E. Williams]

Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

The machine is more of a micro shaper than a mill. I would love to play with it as I have a lot of literature on it and it looks like fun.

The shaper angle is what I always imagined it to be, although I've never actually seen pictures of the machine either static OR in operation. You've actually got literature on this thing?!?! I don't suppose you'd be willing to scan and share copies of that, would you?

[Dean Romig]

Dave submitted an article for publication in Parker Pages on Parker Bros machinery a couple of years ago and the rib-matting machine was featured in it.





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