Help ID OLD Shop Machine

[Melbourne]

@Napier

Pneumatics would be surprising for such a machine, as air cylinders store a great deal of energy when they develop big forces. They’re springy. Hydraulic cylinders don’t, as liquids are practically incompressible in comparison to gasses.

You don’t want big stored energy in a tool like this. If something goes wrong, an air cylinder would propel massive shrapnel all over the place, killing people and whatnot.

When something goes wrong on a hydraulic, system, there’s a sort of “klunk” noise, but no need for sirens.

Imagine breaking the frame of your shop vise (as I did recently). Suddenly it’s in two pieces divided by a big crack. You have to replace the vise, but not your body parts. Now imagine doing the same thing when you have compressed a gigantic spring way down flat. Not pretty.

But, whatever the dis-advantages, trains and machine shops used pnuumatic power, not hydraulic power.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

It is neither dental nor photographic equipment.
I got nuthin.

[Gbro]

I got some interesting info of the OWWM forum,
One poster claims this is a; [It is a steam powered upsetter. You use it for shaping a new End on a rock drill. or a star drill].
There was another poster that used the Term Upsetter and that was in forming heads on bolts or rivets.
I have posted several more pictures on the link
Here

[Gbro]

Found here,

And when I replied to my Manager when he asked I told him that its a drill sharpener.
That reply must have come from being told at one time and I just didn’t look into what I was told. OR, WAG’s are occasionally correct :smack:

Thanks all for the help.