I will try to keep this as short as I can . Recently I was told of a neighbor down my street who lost her husband (the big “C”) and had a shop full of tools and no clue how to deal with them. After procrastinating for a month + I stopped by to see if can help. What a shock!

With out a doubt he was a MASTER bowl turner as there was 30 to 40 huge rough finished bowl on shelves in the shop. The finished pieces belong on the back cover of FWW or a museum. You know, large bowls, blond/highly figured/ragged edged/ragged perforations in the sides and the flat areas polished like gold. These are art.

I was more affected as I had lost SHMBO in ’92, same cause. I have every hand tool any living person could expect and the usual stationary types so I don’t need the tools and I will advise her on their value but I need help to id four big tools.

1-Harrison Union Graduate bowl lathe (uk) with the biggest Dayton motor I have ever seen. This is the most elusive and unknown. It is all cast and you and two helpers would not put this in the back of my Ford-150. It looks like pac-man with a long and a short arm. The long arm (@18″) is bolted on.

2/3-yellow mustard/gold colored sheet metal cabs, a spindle shaper 1″ with a huge cast iron top. Too heavy for us to move to see the tags. A 6X48 belt 12″ disk all cast top. Same problem. You see I am 63 and she is only 5’2″ but a charming lady.

4-A delta 10″ unisaw mod 34 802 and ser 85054355 tube type rails . I have checked the wizard that has listed all the ser# but found nada.

The largest power plug in the shop is a ground pin/vertical flat blade with a horizontal flat blade. I think that this is 110 vac. 30amps ? for the four big guys.

I told her that I would reach out to you and my Long Island woodworker friends to focus on these big guys, The delta 14″bandsaw,  17″ floor drill press, multiple red tool chests of sockets/turning tools and scribes,calipers etc. we could deal with ourselves.

I am very new to this site and very much like what I have seen. I wish I had known of you earlier and I wouldn’t have a couple of turkeys that I have acquired or not spent so much time beating a decision for serious purchase to death. Thanks, Pat,